Our story

(Intro — spoken softly)

Yeah…

Eau Claire High… 2006…

Commons area by the piano…

Crazy how one moment can echo twenty years later…

(Hook — soulful)

This our story… ain’t perfect, but it’s ours

Built through broken roads, long nights, hidden scars

Sometimes we lost ourselves tryna hold on too hard

But somehow through the chaos… we never got too far

This our story… tears mixed with laughter too

Whole lotta pain, but a whole lotta love came through

And if the world ever asks me what was true…

I’ma say… you.

(Verse 1)

Back in Eau Claire, commons area by the keys

Young girl sitting there, whole world shifted quietly

Wasn’t rich, wasn’t famous, ain’t nobody had a clue

That a hallway conversation would turn into me and you

2006 dreams, young love in the air

Still tryna find ourselves while pretending we ain’t scared

Life came fast… bills, babies, pressure

Smiles in the pictures while we silently carried weather

Four lil souls made from pieces of our pain

Tried to build a home while we both fought change

Some nights we was fire, some nights gasoline

Some nights felt like heaven, some like a crime scene

I ain’t innocent, nah, I done crossed lines too

Ignored my own conscience when I knew what it’d do

And you carried hurt I probably still don’t fully know

That’s the thing bout love… roots grow deep below

(Hook)

This our story… ain’t perfect, but it’s ours

Built through broken roads, long nights, hidden scars

Sometimes we lost ourselves tryna hold on too hard

But somehow through the chaos… we never got too far

This our story… tears mixed with laughter too

Whole lotta pain, but a whole lotta love came through

And if the world ever asks me what was true…

I’ma say… you.

(Verse 2)

We done had them cold wars sleeping back to back

Then the next day laughing in the kitchen making snacks

Conversations bout freedom, pain, God, and self

While both of us secretly needing help

You seen versions of me I was scared to face

The provider, the runner, the lost man, the rage

But lately I been learning peace ain’t control

And love ain’t losing yourself tryna fill every role

You told me I always had discernment inside

I just kept drowning intuition tryna silence my mind

Now we talking like humans instead of keeping score

That alone worth more than all the fighting before

And maybe forever ain’t promised, I know

But real love don’t disappear just cause people grow

If this chapter closes someday, cool… still respect

Cause you helped me find pieces of me I couldn’t detect

(Bridge — melodic)

From the piano

To the babies

To the chaos

To the healing

We still here

Still breathing

Still writing

Our story

(Final Hook — emotional)

This our story… imperfect but alive

Somehow after everything we still survived

And even if tomorrow pull us separate ways

Can’t nobody erase all these years we gave

This our story… all the lows and highs

All the almost quits and all the late night cries

And if they ask me what love looked like to me…

I’ll say your name Tahiti