[Verse 1 – HIM]
I didn’t believe in ghosts back then
Just old houses learning how to breathe
Morning frost, a crooked tree
And silence that kept looking back at me
[Verse 1 – HER]
I didn’t mean to wake you up
I stood where I always stood before
Bare feet numb, counting seconds
Waiting by the door
[Pre-Chorus – HIM]
I blinked and you were nothing
Like a dream that lost its nerve
[Pre-Chorus – HER]
I blinked and you were someone
I wasn’t ready to deserve
[Chorus – BOTH (soft harmony)]
HIM: I should’ve been afraid
HER: I should’ve walked away
BOTH:
But love doesn’t ask permission
And time don’t work that way
HIM: I didn’t fall for a ghost
HER: I didn’t mean to stay
BOTH:
I just got lost between the seconds
Where yesterday won’t fade
[Verse 2 – HIM]
Doors opening when I swore they’d closed
Two notes in the dead of night
Dust hanging in the moonlight
Like the house was holding its breath tight
[Verse 2 – HER]
I tried to remember songs I loved
But they came apart in my hands
Just fragments, just feelings
Just waiting I didn’t understand
[Pre-Chorus – HER]
I saw you before you saw me
Heard your steps on the stair
[Pre-Chorus – HIM]
You looked like you were listening
For someone who wasn’t there
[Chorus – BOTH]
HER: I cried without a sound
HIM: I held you without names
BOTH:
Some pain don’t need a question
Some hearts don’t need explaining
HIM: I didn’t mean to keep you
HER: I didn’t know how to leave
BOTH:
We were just two broken echoes
Trying hard to believe
[Bridge – HER (almost spoken)]
He said he’d come back for me
I waited where the light used to be
Then the years went quiet
And the house forgot how to speak
[Bridge – HIM]
Fog wrapped tight around the walls
Bottle empty, fire cold
You looked at me like I was real
Like I was something you could hold
[Bridge – BOTH (overlapping)]
HER: I don’t want to be alone
HIM: You don’t have to stay
HER: I don’t know what’s waiting
HIM: I’ll help you find the way
[Verse 3 – HIM (reveal)]
Dust and letters, blue ribbon tied
A photograph I couldn’t face
Your laughter in a garden
And my own eyes staring back in place
[Verse 3 – HER (soft, breaking)]
I knew you before I knew your name
I knew your hands, your face
You didn’t mean to leave me
You just… fell out of time and space
[Final Chorus – BOTH (full harmony)]
HIM: I loved you in this lifetime
HER: I loved you in another
BOTH:
Some souls don’t end, they circle
Until they find each other
HER: I didn’t mean to stay
HIM: I didn’t mean to go
BOTH:
We were just a promise waiting
To be remembered, then let go
[Outro – HER]
Thank you for finding me
[Outro – HIM (whispered)]
Thank you for leaving free
[Outro – BOTH (hummed melody)]
(soft wordless harmony, fading)Thank you
