I didnt mean to stay

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

I didn’t mean to wake you up

I stood where I always stood before

Bare feet numb, counting seconds

Waiting by the door

I blinked and you were nothing

Like a dream that lost its nerve

I blinked and you were someone

I wasn’t ready to deserve

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

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

I tried to remember songs I loved

But they came apart in my hands

Just fragments, just feelings

Just waiting I didn’t understand

I saw you before you saw me

Heard your steps on the stair

You looked like you were listening

For someone who wasn’t there

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for finding me

Thank you for leaving free

(soft wordless harmony, fading)Thank you