Hello Today

Lyrics

[Intro ☕][Energy: Low]
(acoustic guitar alone — warm, open, unhurried)
(single notes with morning space between them)
(bass enters soft as a breath)

Hello today
(just today)
Hello today

[Verse 1 ☕][Energy: Low]
Last night the numbers weren't what I wanted
The hunger won a round I should have kept
I know because I checked before I slept
And the number told me
Everything

But that was last night
And this is morning
And morning doesn't carry
What the night left behind

I'm not being judged by where I'm going
I'm not sentenced by the night
I am here today
And today is mine

[Pre-Chorus][Energy: Build]
(bass lifts gently, violin enters warm)
I am free today
Free to build today
Free to be
Exactly who I'm choosing
To become

One day's worth of becoming
That's all I'm asked to carry
One day's worth of yes
One day's worth of me

[Chorus 🔥][Energy: Mid-High]
(band opens — warm, celebratory, gentle)
Hello today
I've been waiting for you
Hello today
Clean and new

I get to eat the right food today
I get to fast the right length today
I get to walk the walk today —
These legs
That used to need a cane
Get to walk today

I get to lift the weight today
Not because I have to
Because I get to
Because this body
Fought its way back
From a road
That takes your sight
Your feet
Your life

And today
It gets to choose
The other road

Hello today
Hello today

[Verse 2 ☕][Energy: Low]
(drops back — guitar and voice, intimate)
There were mornings I woke up defeated
Before the day had said a word
When eleven point two was where I lived
And the doctor's sentence
Was all I heard

Blindness waiting at the edges
The medications lined up on the shelf
And I couldn't see a morning
Where I'd wake up
And feel like
Myself

But I made the quiet choices
Nobody films
And one morning the doctor said
Normal
Like it was nothing
And I said hello
To that day
For the rest
Of my life

[Pre-Chorus][Energy: Build]
(violin lifts, unhurried and warm)
I am free today
Free to build today
Free to be
Exactly who I'm choosing
To become

One day's worth of becoming
One day's worth of showing up
One day's worth of yes
Is enough
Is always
Enough

[Chorus 🔥][Energy: Mid-High]
Hello today
I've been waiting for you
Hello today
Clean and new

I get to eat the right food today
I get to fast the right length today
I get to walk the walk today —
These legs
That used to need a cane
That crossed a finish line
Get to walk today

I get to lift the weight today
Not because I have to
Because I get to
Because this body
Said normal
This body ran a race
This body chose
And chose
And chose again

And today
It gets to choose
Again

Hello today
Hello today

[Bridge 😭][Energy: Low]
(everything drops — guitar alone, close and warm)
There was a time I woke up
And the day already felt lost
Before I'd taken one step
Before the coffee
Before the light

The blood sugar from the night before
Still sitting in the room
The cane by the door
The handicap sticker
On the car outside

(bass enters, slow and steady)
I didn't know then
What I know now

(beat — held)

That today is the only day
That has ever actually existed
That yesterday is a memory
And tomorrow is a guess

And right here
In this actual morning
Checking the number
Making the choice
I am free

[Bridge 🔥][Energy: Mid]
(fuller — warm, like sunrise not lightning)
So I say hello to it
I say hello to today
Like the gift it actually is

Hello to the food I get to choose
Hello to the fast I get to keep
Hello to the walk —
(not the shuffle)
(not the cane)
The walk my legs get to take
Hello to the weights my hands get to lift
Hello to the number
That says normal
When I check it

Hello today
Hello today
Hello
Today

[Final Chorus 🔥][Energy: High]
(full band — warm and open, Where Are You Going fully realized)
Hello today
I've been waiting for you
Hello today
Clean and new

I get to eat the right food today
I get to fast the right length today
I get to walk the walk today —
These legs
Still here
Still mine
Still choosing

I get to lift the weight today
Not because I have to
Because I get to
Because this body
Crossed a finish line
This body said normal
This body chose
And chose
And chose again

And today
It gets to choose
Again

Hello today
Hello today
Hello
Today

[Outro ☕][Energy: Low][Fade Out]
(guitar returns alone — same warm phrase as intro)
(bass fades soft as a breath)
(violin holds one resolved warm note and releases)

Hello today

...just today

(beat)

That's enough
That's always
Been
Enough