Consent

Описание: Consent is about boundaries without hostility.
About allowing difference without requiring participation.
About distance as a form of respect, not rejection.

This track is calm by design.

Lyrics

I don’t need the world to match me
I don’t need it shaped the same
Every path can hold its meaning
Without asking for my name

I’ve learned how to share the silence
How to leave room when I pass
Difference never felt threatening
Until it started asking back

Nothing wrong with becoming
Whatever helps you breathe
But something shifts when affirmation
Starts sounding like a need

You can be who you need to be
I won’t stand in the way
But don’t turn my distance into harm
Or my quiet into blame

Agreement isn’t kindness
And refusal isn’t hate
Some things need mutual consent
Not everyone participating

I don’t ask to be reflected
I don’t ask to be included
I just want my boundaries
To stop being interpreted

As fear, or lack of care
Or something to be fixed
As if stepping back politely
Means I never really existed

Respect used to mean restraint
Knowing where to let things lie
Now it sounds like obligation
With no room to step aside

You can speak your truth out loud
You can change, you can grow
But don’t make my stillness violent
Just because I choose not to show

I won’t rewrite my language
To survive the night
I’m not asking to be centered
I’m asking to opt out

Tolerance doesn’t mean proximity
And acceptance doesn’t bind
Care can exist at a distance
Without dissolving the line

Some truths don’t need repeating
Some lives don’t intersect
Peace isn’t found in merging
It’s found in mutual respect

You don’t need me to validate
What already feels real to you
And I don’t need to perform belief
To prove my care is true

Let difference remain difference
Let space stay intact
Freedom loses something vital
When it forgets how to step back

I’ll wish you well from where I stand
Without applause or fight
Not every boundary is a wall
Some are just the shape of right

Tags

downtempo, intimate music, slow listening, Static Harbour