Verse 1
He met her on a quiet street,
Where the lights don’t shine too bright
She laughed like she knew his name,
Like the world was finally kind
He’d been walking with his head down low,
Counting cracks in the road
Then she took his hand and said,
“You don’t have to walk alone”
Pre-Chorus
Every scar felt lighter then,
Every doubt just slipped away
For the first time in his life
He believed in what she’d say
Chorus
He learned how love feels when it stays,
When it calls you home at night
But he learned even faster how it breaks,
When it says goodbye
She was warmth in the dead of winter,
She was fire, she was gold
Now he’s holding onto ashes
Of a love he couldn’t hold
Verse 2
They made plans they never wrote,
Spoke in dreams and future tense
She said, “I’ll always be right here,”
Like forever made sense
He gave her all the parts of him
He used to keep away
She knew the truth in his silence
And the words he couldn’t say
Pre-Chorus
But the cracks came back one by one,
In the spaces when she’d leave
Every promise started sounding
Like a memory
Chorus
He learned how love feels when it stays,
When it calls you home at night
But he learned even faster how it breaks,
When it says goodbye
She was warmth in the dead of winter,
She was fire, she was gold
Now he’s holding onto ashes
Of a love he couldn’t hold
Bridge
She said, “It’s not your fault,”
But she wouldn’t meet his eyes
Left her shadow on his walls
And her echo in his mind
Now he wonders if love’s a gift
Or a lesson wrapped in pain
If it’s something you’re meant to keep
Or just something that walks away
Final Chorus
He knows how love feels when it stays,
Even if it didn’t last
‘Cause it changed him in a way
He can never take back
She was real, she was honest,
She was more than just a phase
Now he’s learning how to breathe again
Through the hurt she left behind
Outro
He walks that street alone again,
But his head’s a little high
‘Cause he loved, and he lost,
And he’s still alive
