Can I

🎶 Can I

©️mary🦂🌺

[Verse 1]

Can I be a simple tune
that echoes in your mind,
that you hum at midnight
while searching for words
that are nowhere to be found?

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[Refrain] (soft, recurring thread)

Can I… can I…
be the line you can’t erase?
Can I… can I…
linger in your space?

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[Verse 2]

Can I be a simple line,
the one you draw in the sand,
battling the waves as they take me away,
knowing I’ll be safer in the bay?

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[Refrain]

Can I… can I…
be the mark the tide can’t keep?
Can I… can I…
be the thought you never leave?

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[Verse 3]

Can I be a free-spirited cloud,
as you glance at the sky,
and your imagination runs wild—
seeing unicorns and dragons,
or my fading smile?

Can I be one of your dreams,
the one that keeps you sweating in the night,
as your heartbeat rushes out of your chest?

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[Chorus] (anchor—this is the memory hook)

Can I be the one you carry
when the world goes quiet?
Not a name you say out loud—
just a feeling you can’t hide.

Can I be the line beyond you,
like a horizon in your sight?
Always there, just out of reach…
still calling you at night.

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[Verse 4]

The story will be told, but never completed.

And I’m the line you see so far beyond,
like a horizon you reach with your arms.

And you’re the line I keep scribbling
inside my journals,
with one drawing of a teary, weary eye.

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[Bridge] (intimate, almost spoken)

Can I be the one who haunts
your weirdest dreams?
The one that makes you pray… something?

Can I be the one you wish upon the stars,
as you trace constellations with those lines?

For stories will be told long after we pass,
and they will invent their fictions fast…

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[Chorus – reprise]

Can I be the one you carry
when the world goes quiet?
Not a name you say out loud—
just a feeling you can’t hide.

Can I be the line beyond you,
like a horizon in your sight?
Always there, just out of reach…
still calling you at night.

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[Outro]

Can I be… and can you be…

The story will be told,
but never completed.

I guess we are just silver lines—
we don’t even need to write.

[Female Vocal]

pop, emo, soft ambient / dream pop