Where the Wildflowers Used to Be

🎹 Key Elements: Soft piano, distant thunder, slow guitar swells, heartbeat bass

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🎙️ [Intro – Spoken, soft rain + distant thunder]

(gentle rain, low piano notes)

We were born…

in the same storm…

Same sky… same wind…

Same wildflowers…

But somewhere along the way…

you learned how to fly away…

and I… stayed.

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🎵 [Verse 1 – soft piano, airy guitar fades in]

We were petals in the same breeze

Golden light through broken trees

You had colors I couldn’t hold

I had roots in the soil and soul

You danced like fire above the ground

I traced every humming sound

Didn’t know love could turn this cold

Didn’t know wings could outgrow

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🌧️ [Pre-Chorus – rain builds slightly]

You used to land beside me…

Now you won’t even see me…

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💔 [Chorus – full emotion, piano + bass swell]

You said a bee don’t belong with a butterfly

Said our worlds were never meant to collide

Now I’m hummin’ through storms under broken skies

While you fade in the distance of your own light

We were stitched together from the start of time

Now I’m unravelin’ threads you left behind

Guess some wings don’t stay, no matter how you try…

And a bee ain’t enough…

for a butterfly

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🎵 [Verse 2 – darker tone, subtle strings]

You started driftin’ past the rain

Chasin’ suns I couldn’t name

Said this field was way too small

Like I was never enough at all

But every drop still calls your name

Every storm feels just the same

You were my sky, my only view

Now the clouds just echo you

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🌧️ [Pre-Chorus – whisper harmonies]

I feel you in the thunder…

But you don’t pull me under…

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💔 [Chorus – stronger, layered vocals]

You said a bee don’t belong with a butterfly

Said our worlds were never meant to collide

Now I’m hummin’ through storms under broken skies

While you fade in the distance of your own light

We were stitched together from the start of time

Now I’m unravelin’ threads you left behind

Guess some wings don’t stay, no matter how you try…

And a bee ain’t enough…

for a butterfly

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🖤 [Bridge – stripped down, just piano + rain]

(soft, almost whispering)

Maybe I was just your shelter in the storm…

Not the place you were meant to stay…

(pause… thunder crack)

But I would’ve loved you…

through every version of your wings…

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🌩️ [Final Chorus – BIG, emotional peak]

Yeah, a bee don’t belong with a butterfly…

That’s what you said when you said goodbye…

Now I’m hummin’ alone while the wildflowers die

And your colors disappear into another sky

We were best friends since the day we were born

Now I’m just a ghost in the shape you outworn

Guess some wings don’t stay… they just learn how to fly…

And a bee ain’t enough…

for a butterfly…

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🎙️ [Outro – spoken, rain fades, piano soft]

(quiet… almost breaking)

I still wait…

in the rain…

…just in case…

you remember me.