🌿 A Quiet Act of Courage in Sound: Each Time I Nearly Break
There are songs that speak loudly — and there are songs that
sit beside you in silence, waiting for the right moment to be heard.
“Each Time I Nearly Break”, written by Ali Taha Alnobani,
belongs to the second kind.
It does not rush to comfort you.
It walks with you through the fragile space between pain and
survival.
From its very first line —
“Each time I nearly break, I rise again for my own sake” —
the song makes something clear: this is not a story about
heroism for an audience. It is about private courage. The kind that happens
when nobody is watching.
🌱 Turning hurt into something living
One of the most beautiful ideas in this song is how suffering
is transformed — not erased.
> “To plant a flower where thorns still live.”
Pain is still there. The thorns remain.
But life grows beside them.
The lyrics refuse to pretend that healing means forgetting.
Instead, they suggest something far more honest: learning how to exist with the
scars without letting them become walls.
When the song says:
> “They tried to silence me with stones,
> But I built bridges out of bones.”
it captures the quiet rebellion of resilience.
The very things meant to break you become the structure that
carries you forward.
💔 A soft answer to hard hearts
What makes this song deeply human is its gentleness.
> “Every scar, a light I own —
> A soft reply to hearts of stone.”
There is no revenge here.
No bitterness.
Only the quiet decision to remain tender in a world that
keeps offering reasons to close off.
This is emotional maturity in lyrical form — choosing
softness not because the world is kind, but because you refuse to let cruelty
rewrite your inner language.
☁️ The chorus: where grief learns to breathe
The chorus feels like a slow exhale.
> “Each time I nearly fall apart,
> I tie a ribbon ’round my heart.”
It’s a fragile image — almost childlike — and that is exactly
why it works. Healing is not always dramatic. Sometimes it is simply learning
how to hold yourself together gently.
The floating clouds, drifting east and west, and finally
falling like suns into “a lake that dreams in gold” create a cinematic
emotional landscape. Grief is no longer loud. It becomes something quiet,
reflective — something that can finally be spoken without breaking the voice.
> “Where quiet grief is gently told.”
Few lines describe emotional processing so truthfully.
🌊 Love that lingers after it leaves
Verse two shifts the emotional focus from survival to loss.
> “And you — where did you go?”
This is not anger. It is wonder.
A stunned tenderness toward someone who arrived like light
and disappeared just as quietly.
> “A flash, a sigh, a ghost in light —
> Now you’re the echo in my night.”
The song understands how some relationships do not end in
conflict — they end in silence. And sometimes, that silence is harder to carry.
🌼 Choosing grace when anger feels easier
The bridge is one of the most emotionally powerful moments in
the song:
> “I answer thorns with bloom and grace,
> I won’t let anger steal my face.”
This line does not deny pain.
It rejects what pain can turn us into.
It is a conscious decision to protect one’s inner identity —
to not allow disappointment, betrayal, or regret to become the permanent
expression we wear.
🕯️ The final chorus: survival becomes hope
The closing lines gently lift the song from reflection into
light:
> “Each time I nearly lose my spark,
> I find it glowing in the dark.”
Hope here is not loud or triumphant.
It is small. It flickers. But it survives.
> “A broken bird that finds its wing.”
Not a perfect bird.
Not an unhurt one.
A broken one — still capable of flight.
🎼 A lyric video that lets the words lead
The official lyric video of Each Time I Nearly Break is
designed with restraint and emotional intelligence. Gentle piano, warm strings,
subtle electronic textures and intimate vocals create a soft cinematic space
where the lyrics remain at the center.
Rather than overwhelming the listener with visuals, the video
allows every line to breathe — guiding the listener through a slow emotional
journey of forgiveness, inner healing, and quiet strength.
It captures the fragile moment between falling apart and
standing up again.
✨ Why this song matters
Each Time I Nearly Break is not only a pop ballad.
It is an emotional companion for anyone who has had to
rebuild themselves silently.
It speaks to:
emotional survival,
forgiveness without
forgetting,
and the slow, private
work of becoming whole again.
This is a song for the people who keep going — not because
life became easier, but because they learned how to be gentler with themselves.
