🪶 Featherlock - Lyrics

🪶 Original Lyrics by Loui Crow

(VERSE 1 — The Lock Is a Loyalty)

My back grew bent from holding their moods.
I stayed real quiet and they called it good.

I held my breath.
I bit my tongue.
Kept the peace so they wouldn’t run.

My smile stayed when my “no” got cracked.
I played calm while my body fought back.

This isn’t just pain.
It’s where I held on.
My body remembers what I thought was gone.

(HOOK — The Nervous System Sang It First)

Featherlock, featherlock—tight in my skin.
My body holds what I couldn’t let in.
Featherlock, featherlock—deep in my bone.
A spell I cast when I felt alone.

(Loop whisper: let go. let go. let go.)

(VERSE 2 — Bone Memory Algorithm)

My jaw clamped shut like a locked-up box.
My gut went hard to keep me soft.

I smiled “yes” when I meant “please no.”
My spine spoke truth, but I let it go.

I learned to love without taking space.
Stayed real sweet and left no trace.

Each pain I feel is a note I missed—
A voice I buried in a tightened fist.

(HOOK — Repeat, Stronger)

Featherlock, featherlock—held so tight.
A headache formed from being polite.
Featherlock, featherlock—spell and shield.
My pain is truth I never revealed.

(Echo loop: I forgive. I release. I feel.)

(BRIDGE — Let the Ritual Speak)

This is truth.
This is strength.
This is my body
speaking in breath.

I lived.
I adapted.
I stayed whole
while everything cracked.

Now I’m ready to release the grip.
Now I choose to let it slip.

I speak.
I soften.
I move what stayed.
I name it sacred.
I let it fade.

(OUTRO — Crow Gospel / Spell Dissolve)

I am whole.
I am the map.
Each pain I carry
marks where I came back.

I opened space.
I found the flame.
I called my power
by my name.

Featherlock is a threshold.
It opens me wide.
I breathe.
I speak.

(Breath loop: let go. let go. let go.)

✍️ About This Song

“Featherlock” is a nervous system spell disguised as a poem.
It’s written for the parts of you that got quiet to survive—the jaw that locked, the gut that braced, the “yes” you whispered when you meant no.

This is not a pain story.
It’s a threshold chant.
It names pain as signal, not punishment.
It uncoils the lie that silence is safe.

Featherlock is the ritual for remembering:
you didn’t break. You adapted.
And now, with breath, you release the old spell.

🎧 Streaming Everywhere

You can listen to Featherlock right here—or find it on any streaming platform.
Just search Loui Crow on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, TikTok, or wherever you let the medicine in.

Your pain is not the end of the story.
It’s the gate.
Featherlock opens it.

💔 Wound It Speaks To

• Anyone who stayed quiet to be loved.

• Anyone who held tension in their body so others could feel safe.

• Anyone recovering from emotional suppression, perfectionism, or body betrayal.