[Verse 1]
Sky turned copper
Birds stopped mid-flight
You were holding
All you could that night
Wet photographs
In your shaking hands
Whole lives smudged
Into dripping plans
[Pre-Chorus]
I keep replaying
How it used to feel
Green on our knees
Grass stains on our heels
Now every breath
Tastes like a warning
Every sunrise
Feels like mourning
[Chorus]
We are the ashes in the tide
Names written on a vanished shoreline
Counting the trees that never grew old
Talking to ghosts in the heat and the smoke
We had a world we didn’t know we’d lose
Danced on the edge in our borrowed shoes
Now every memory cuts like fire on skin
We’re learning how to breathe
In the aftermath of what we did
[Verse 2]
Playgrounds rusting
Swings stuck halfway
Your little brother
Asks if this will stay
You change the subject
Point to one blue star
Say
“Some things make it
Even from this far”
[Pre-Chorus]
I hear the laughter
That the rivers stole
See crowded summers
In an empty pool
Our future feels
Like a burned-out town
Torn-up letters
Scattered on the ground
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] If I could turn back every spark
Every careless summer wish
Would the oceans hold us gently?
Would the forests still exist? [crescendo]
I light a candle on the windowsill
For every name the storms have sealed
I whisper “I’m sorry”
To the dark
To the dirt
To the parts of us
We’ll never heal
[Chorus]