Fade in the Pines

Verse 1

Met you in a season when the shadows felt loud,

Old ghosts rising while the world spun down.

Didn’t look for a flame, didn’t ask for a spark,

But you lit up the ridge like a torch in the dark.

Hours felt like days when we sunk in deep,

Those months of closeness that most don’t reach.

You talked about a future like you saw it in your sleep,

I held every word like a promise I could keep.

Hook

Now I roam through the pines where your voice still stays,

Cutting pathways through the memories we made.

Heavy is the silence when the truth don’t speak,

You were sunlight once — now you’re fog in the trees.

Verse 2

You opened up soft, let me see behind the frame,

Heart worn thin but you gave me your name.

Held your breath on the edge of a brand-new start,

But the past pulled you back like a hand on your heart.

Didn’t say goodbye — you just drifted like smoke,

Left me standing in the timber with the words you never spoke.

Should I reach? Should I wait? Should I let this ache fade?

Guess the forest knows the answer by the shadows it made.

Hook 2

Now I roam through the pines where your voice still stays,

Cutting pathways through the memories we made.

Heavy is the silence when the truth don’t speak,

You were sunlight once — now you’re fog in the trees.

Bridge (Dark, Low, Spoken)

Maybe you were healing, maybe I was a light,

Maybe timing was a monster we couldn’t really fight.

If you ever come back, I’ll hear your steps in the night…

But I’m done chasing echoes that never call right.

Outro

So I fire up the steel, let the hillside breathe,

Let the work clear the weight that you left on me.

If our chapter’s done, then let the forest be free —

Just know part of me waits in the place you used to be.