We Know Better Now

Verse 1

There was a time when gaps felt wide,

When quiet begged to be denied.

When absence wore a fearful shape,

And not yet knowing felt unsafe.

We named the dark before we knew

What waiting worlds were meant to do.

We filled the silence, drew a line,

Mistaking caution for design.

Chorus

But we know better now, we see it whole.

The night was never out of control.

What once felt vast was simply bare—

A space for thought, not threat, nor snare.

No flame required. No watch to hold.

No danger hid in hours untold.

The dark is nothing, just the vast

a barren land yet unsurpassed.

Verse 2

Effort stood where answers slept,

And rest was traded for what we kept.

A sense that something must be near,

That cost itself was proof of fear.

But strain does not reveal what’s true,

Nor does persistence make it new.

What pressed us then has lost its claim,

A question settled, stripped of name.

Chorus

But we know better now, we see it whole.

The night was never out of control.

What once felt vast was simply bare—

A space for thought, not threat, nor snare.

No flame required. No watch to hold.

No danger hid in hours untold.

The dark is nothing, just the vast

a barren land yet unsurpassed.

Bridge

Ignorance gives weight to air,

And names to things not living there.

But knowledge clears the crowded night,

And leaves no room for second sight.

Verse 3

We stand with measures, marks, and proof,

With ordered thought and tested truth.

The world responds when understood—

Not fed by fear, but mapped as good.

What once was carried hand to flame

Is carried now by truer names.

No vigil keeps us standing still—

We rest, because we will.

Final Chorus

We know better now.

The night is plain.

No harm remains where none was named.

What once felt deep was only long—

A pause mistaken for a wrong.

Sleep unafraid. No fire required.

No older warnings left to heed.

The age of watching has expired.

We know, and knowing is all we need.