Wide Open Heart

Verse 1

Little feet on hardwood floors, sunrise creeping through the blinds,

You laughed and every wall I’d built just crumbled in my mind.

I never knew a love could hit like thunder soft as rain,

Now every joy comes wrapped in fear that I could lose this thing again.

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Pre-Chorus

But every trembling moment

Shows me just what I’ve been given…

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Chorus

’Cause loving you cuts deep and wide,

A blessing and a bruise.

I never felt so strong inside,

Or had so much to lose.

My heart’s a door without a lock,

You walked in from the start—

And I learned the sweetest love in life

Can tear a man apart.

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Verse 2

Sometimes the world turns heavy, shadows stretching on the ground,

I hold your hand a little tighter when the storms come rolling down.

I’m brave in ways I never was, afraid in ways I never dreamed,

’Cause loving you means every fear now matters more than it once seemed.

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Verse 3

But in your eyes I see a light that shines beyond the cost,

A quiet truth that beauty only lives beside what could be lost.

And though it scares me half to death to love you like I do,

I’d walk through every fear I’ve got just to keep walking next to you.

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Instrumental Interlude

(Folk fingerpicking blended with reggae off-beat guitar;

bluesy harmonica bending notes; slow-building groove into the bridge.)

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Bridge

Maybe hearts are meant to break

Just to learn how wide they are—

Maybe love’s a leap of faith

Guided only by the stars.

Maybe fear is just the proof

Of something sacred in our hands—

Maybe this is what it means

To love more than we planned.

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Chorus

’Cause loving you cuts deep and wide,

A blessing and a bruise.

I never felt so strong inside,

Or had so much to lose.

My heart’s a door without a lock,

You walked in from the start—

And I learned the sweetest love in life

Can tear a man apart.

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Final Verse

And someday when you’re grown enough to face the world alone,

I’ll pray you feel a love like this, the kind that shakes you to the bone.

A love that scares you, lifts you, breaks you, puts you back together true—

So you’ll know the wild and fragile gift I found the day I met you.

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Final Chorus

’Cause loving you cuts deep and wide,

But I’d take it every time.

The pain just proves the love is real,

The fear just draws the line.

If this is what it means to grow,

I’ll rise with every scar—

For the beauty and the danger

Of a wide open heart.

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Outro

Let the moonlight find the window,

Let the days keep drifting on—

If loving you is risk and fire,

It’s still where I belong.

For every tear and trembling breath,

Every fragile, fearless part—

You taught me how a man becomes

A wide open heart.