**[Intro – low, rain on tin roof]**
I see her face… in the quiet rain
**[Verse 1]**
Rain on the windshield, 2 a.m. blur
Her face in the droplets, every streak a whisper of her
Streetlights smear gold across the glass I can’t roll down
I twist the ring, but the promise drowns
**[Pre-Chorus]**
I made a promise once, under a softer sky
Now the words feel borrowed, like a borrowed life
I thumb the band of gold, it’s warm, it’s tight
Love’s a door I keep locked every night
**[Chorus]**
Maybe in another life
Where hearts don’t break
And wrong feels right
We’ll dance beneath a kinder sky
But not in this....life
Not tonight
**[Verse 2]**
Her voice drifts in with the bar’s low neon glow
Soft as the smoke, bright as the things I’ll never know
I trace the rim of a glass I haven’t touched
Some hungers stay quiet, but they still burn too much
**[Pre-Chorus]**
This heart still learns her name in secret code
I teach it silence on the long way home
I leave the porch light on, slip in without a sound
Love don’t wander here, it just circles round
**[Chorus]**
Maybe in another life
Where hearts don’t break
And wrong feels right
We’ll dance beneath a kinder sky
But not in this....life
Not tonight
**[Bridge – spoken over sparse piano]**
I keep the ring, keep the hours, keep the lie
Keep her laughter folded where the dark can hide
If I had two roads, I’d walk the one she’s on
But I only get this road… and I walk it alone
**[Final Chorus – fuller, cracked voice]**
Maybe in another life
Where hearts don’t break
And wrong feels right
We’ll dance beneath a kinder sky
But not in this....life
Not tonight
Not in this life…
I stay, I fight
**[Outro – rain slows, single chord lingers]**
Her face fades…
In the quiet rain.
JayBird