Front And Center
Pop-R&B ballad with a slow 84 BPM pulse, half-time drums, warm Rhodes chords, muted sub bass, and brushed percussion; verse stays intimate and close-mic, pre-chorus opens with stacked harmonies and rising pads, chorus lands with wide doubles and a chantable hook, bridge strips to piano and breathy vocal runs before the final chorus blooms. Airy risers, reversed piano swells, and a soft delay throw on the key phrase give each lift. Bright, polished, emotional mix with a velvet low end., light, world, soul
Front And Center
Pop-R&B ballad with a slow 84 BPM pulse, half-time drums, warm Rhodes chords, muted sub bass, and brushed percussion; verse stays intimate and close-mic, pre-chorus opens with stacked harmonies and rising pads, chorus lands with wide doubles and a chantable hook, bridge strips to piano and breathy vocal runs before the final chorus blooms. Airy risers, reversed piano swells, and a soft delay throw on the key phrase give each lift. Bright, polished, emotional mix with a velvet low end., light, world, soul
Lyrics
Verse 1
I held your name like a flame
In the back of my chest
Kept making room for your footsteps
Where your silence left a nest
I loved the man I could feel
Before he learned how to stand
But my hands grew tired of reaching
For a faraway hand
Pre-Chorus
I needed safety in your voice
A place to land, a place to breathe
Needed you to speak my name
Like you could finally see me
Chorus
Front and center, I choose me
Front and center, I believe
I am worthy, I am whole
I will not shrink for what you hold
Front and center, let love see
What was always meant for me
If you come, come fully true
I deserve that kind of you
Verse 2
You live inside of my vision
Like a light I still protect
But I won’t call that devotion
If it costs me my respect
I deserve a hand on my shoulder
I deserve a voice that stays
Someone I can call when I’m shaking
Not a hope that drifts away
Pre-Chorus
I needed safety in your voice
A place to land, a place to breathe
Needed you to speak my name
Like you could finally see me
Chorus
Front and center, I choose me
Front and center, I believe
I am worthy, I am whole
I will not shrink for what you hold
Front and center, let love see
What was always meant for me
If you come, come fully true
I deserve that kind of you
Bridge
I trust the divine to guide
What is mine will find its way
I am not a back-burner prayer
I am the one who stays
If your love can rise to meet me
Then let it rise with open hands
Heart to heart and skin to soul
A holy yes I can stand
Final Chorus
Front and center, I choose me
Front and center, I believe
I am worthy, I am whole
I will not shrink for what you hold
Front and center, let love see
What was always meant for me
If you come, come fully true
I deserve that kind of you
Front and center, I stand free
Love has room to carry me
Held in honor, known and near
No more longing, no more fear
Front and center, I receive
What the deepest truth believes
If you rise, rise whole and clear
I am here, and I am here