You Were A Quiet Gift

[Verse 1]
You came in sideways
Small talk
Shared tea
I blinked and somehow
You'd rearranged me
You laughed at nothing
Turned it into gold
A quiet kind of magic
In the middle of the known
[Chorus]
You were a quiet gift to my loud world
Soft hands on the corners of my hurt
You showed me simple
Could be enough
How deep one person can change your world
Just by calling it love
[Verse 2]
You spoke in pictures
I only saw lines
You pointed out colors
I'd been walking by
You called it "just living"
I called it "divine"
Two different angles
On the same sunlight
[Chorus]
You were a quiet gift to my loud world
Soft hands on the corners of my hurt
You showed me simple
Could be enough
How deep one person can change your world
Just by calling it love
[Bridge]
Now your voice is distant (oh)
Like a dream half-heard
I still set a place
For your forgotten words
You were gentle
Almost
Too soft to stay
But you shifted my center
Then you slipped away
[Chorus]
You were a quiet gift to my loud world
Soft hands on the corners of my hurt
You showed me simple
Could be enough
How deep one person can change your world
Just by calling it love

Gentle indie-folk ballad with female vocals, soft nylon guitar and brushed snare, subtle upright bass. Intimate, almost whispered verses; chorus opens into warm stacked harmonies and a light piano doubling the vocal top line. Very little reverb, close-micbed vocal that feels in-your-ear, with a tender dynamic rise in the final chorus and a lingering guitar outro., simple, world, happy, deep, gentle