breezy · surface-glad · untested
Two phrases arrive wearing big smiles but carrying almost nothing underneath — a day that declared itself wonderful without quite proving it, the emotional equivalent of a thumbs-up from across a parking lot.
Fine From This Distance
Verse 1
We say the week was good
We say it loud enough to hear ourselves
The calendar looked full
We checked the boxes off the shelves
Something moved, something stayed
We called it great before the day was weighed
Chorus
We are fine, we are fine
Hands up, teeth out, drawing a bright line
We are good, we are sure
Said it twice to make it feel more pure
We are fine, we are fine
Waving from the window of a moving life
Verse 2
We didn't slow enough to feel the grain
Of what the week was really made of
We gave it five stars in the rain
And called the whole thing something to be proud of
The greatest, the best, the top of everything
Words we reach for when we've lost the smaller thing
Bridge
Maybe the week was good
Maybe that's actually enough
Not every day needs a verdict
Not every song needs to be the one
We laughed somewhere in there, we must have
We made it through, which is its own kind of rough
Outro
We say it was great
We say it and move on
The week already gone
Already gone
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