Lighter Now

This track comes from leadership earned through service, failures, and rebuilding — the long game of legacy. It tackles The album closer — the moment after setting the weight down. Lighter, not because the weight disappeared, but because you learned you don't have to carry it all alone.. The lyrics get specific — "Like I'd been wearing gravity and took it off tonight" — because personal tracks on Majik's are personal for real, not performatively. The r&b production matches the energy of the confession. It hits hopeful and released, in that order. Every personal track in the catalogue comes from a real moment, a real feeling, a real person. This one is no exception.

[verse 1] I set it down this morning, didn't think the ground would hold But the earth is stronger than I'm told By the voice inside that says it's mine to bear Every expectation, every stare I set the Atlas weight beside my bed And woke up feeling something in its stead Not empty, not relieved, just different, just light Like I'd been wearing gravity and took it off tonight [chorus] I feel lighter now, not fixed but free Lighter now, like the wind inside of me Finally remembered how to move Lighter now, with nothing left to prove The weight didn't disappear, I just grew Strong enough to carry me and the weight too But lighter now, lighter now [verse 2] I called a friend, I hadn't done that in too long Said I'm not okay but I'll be better by this song They didn't try to fix me, didn't hand me a quote Just said, I know, man, I've been carrying my own boat And something shifted, something clicked, the loneliest of things Is thinking you're the only one who knows what heavy brings But we're all carrying, all the leaders, all the vets All the builders burning both ends of the cigarettes [chorus] I feel lighter now, not fixed but free Lighter now, like the wind inside of me Finally remembered how to move Lighter now, with nothing left to prove [bridge] The weight's still there, I won't pretend it's gone The grief, the masks, the quiet leading on But now I know the weight's not all that I'm made of I'm also made of music, made of Charleston, made of love Made of Folly Beach mornings, made of Navy iron Made of something that the weight could never quiet into silence [verse 3] So I'll carry what I can and set down what I can't And I'll stop apologizing for being a human, not a plant That never bends, I bend, and I come back Lighter now, on a different track [outro] Lighter now Not empty, not done Just lighter And that's enough That's enough