The Order of Things

There’s a phone that rings and the world stands still,

A name on the screen and a sudden chill.

You hear the words but they don’t make sense —

How does a heartbeat just turn to silence.

A room still warm where they used to be,

A jacket hanging, a memory.

And the clock keeps moving like nothing’s wrong,

While the people we love just keep moving on.

Nobody told us the road bent here,

Nobody warned us the price of love is fear…

‘Cause parents weren’t meant to bury their own,

Children weren’t meant to leave us alone.

The order of things, it shattered tonight —

But love is the candle that burns through the night.

Oh, love is the candle that burns through the night.

You’ll laugh at a song you weren’t ready to hear,

You’ll cry in the car when no one is near.

You’ll talk to the sky, you’ll whisper their name —

And somehow believe they whisper the same.

The world keeps turning, the seasons still come,

But a piece of your story stays nineteen, stays young.

And the table you set has an empty chair,

But the love that you planted is still living there.

Nobody hands you a map for this,

Nobody warns you what a soul can miss…

‘Cause parents weren’t meant to bury their own,

Children weren’t meant to leave us alone.

The order of things, it shattered tonight —

But love is the candle that burns through the night.

Oh, love is the candle that burns through the night.

So cry when the wave hits, don’t fight the tide,

Speak their name proudly, keep them alive.

We weren’t made strong, we were made to bend —

And the ones that we lost, they walk with us again.

They walk with us again…

(softly)

Hold each other.

Hold the silence.

Hold the storm.

Hold the light.

We were never meant to walk through fire alone…

We were never meant to walk through fire alone.

‘Cause parents weren’t meant to bury their own,

Children weren’t meant to leave us alone.

But the order broke open and let heaven through —

And the love that you carried, it carries you.

Oh, the love that you carried… it carries you.

A name spoken softly. A soul still here.

Love doesn’t end. Love just changes the air.