Green Screen Year

[Intro] Green screen year Camera on Count me in I was not gone [Verse] By August I was directing From a room made out of light Stand Together on the timeline Voices gathered for the night I had tabs open like windows Scripts and names and running cues Every little moving part Somehow knew what it should do And I was there behind the screen Not just watching anymore I was calling out the timing I was opening the door [Pre Chorus] Funny how a quiet kid Can become the one who leads When the world becomes a webcam And the stage becomes a feed [Chorus] That was my green screen year Standing where the lights were clear Thousands saw the work we made And I was not afraid That was my almost-twenty sky Hands up, camera rolling high I had no idea the storm was near I was alive in my green screen year [Verse] High school friends came back around College friends curved back again Like a line that looked like leaving But was only learning when Some apologies were silent Some were spoken through the days Some were just familiar laughter Finding back familiar ways Dhamma talks with hundreds watching I was emcee with steady breath Asking questions, holding space Not yet haunted by what’s next [Pre Chorus] I had a voice, I had a rhythm I had things I knew to say I was growing in the open In a very online way [Chorus] That was my green screen year Standing where the lights were clear Thousands saw the work we made And I was not afraid That was my almost-twenty sky Hands up, camera rolling high I had no idea the storm was near I was alive in my green screen year [Verse] Then came casting for the Cup Uni mates names inside a file Bro there beside the process Turning chaos into style Studio space and green behind us Like a portal in the room I look back now and I whisper Damn, I really peaked too soon Not in failure, not in sadness Just in wonder, just in awe Because I saw myself becoming Someone I had never saw [Pre Chorus] And if you told me in that moment What the next month came to be I would laugh and keep on working Thinking, no, that won’t be me [Chorus] That was my green screen year Standing where the lights were clear Thousands saw the work we made And I was not afraid That was my almost-twenty sky Hands up, camera rolling high I had no idea the storm was near I was alive in my green screen year [Bridge] Nineteen turned to twenty And somehow I had done so much Hosted talks and built a concert Held the mic and kept in touch From small birthdays to big screens From online class to campus seats From walking routes to camera crews From old lost friends to something new I was not waiting to be rescued I was not begging to be seen I was already in the picture I was already on the screen Then November waited quietly Like a shadow past the frame But this song is not about that This song remembers who I became [Chorus] That was my green screen year Standing where the lights were clear Thousands saw the work we made And I was not afraid That was my almost-twenty sky Hands up, camera rolling high I had no idea the storm was near I was alive in my green screen year That was my green screen year Before the fog, before the fear Before the five-year empty space Before I misplaced my own face But somewhere under all that blur The old me did not disappear He was waiting, still sincere Inside that green screen year [Outro] Camera on Count me in Lights are warm Let it begin