Another Life

**[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.

Indie, male