[Verse 1]
She walks like a hymn I forgot how to pray,
quiet in her steps but she keeps me awake.
Hair like dusk and a voice like rain,
she don’t need to save me—just stays in the flame.
I was bones and smoke, just waiting to break,
til she sat in the silence I couldn’t escape.
Didn’t ask for the truth, didn’t flinch at the mess,
just looked in my eyes and called it what’s left.
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[Chorus]
you’re the still in the storm,
the soft in the war,
the hand I swore I’d never reach for.
if I break, you don’t run,
you just hum to my pulse
like you know what I’ve done.
And still—
you stay.
You stay.
You stay.
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[Verse 2]
I gave you the worst parts, the jagged and torn,
the version of me that was barely a form.
And you traced every scar like a roadmap to light,
said “you don’t need to speak—I’ll sit through the night.”
You held me like grief had a shape and a name,
called me worthy in whispers, not asking me to change.
Every “I love you” sounded like peace,
like the hush of the world when the screaming has ceased.
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[Chorus]
you’re the calm in the crash,
the soul in the ash,
the dream I was too dead to ask.
if I fall, you just kneel,
and say “pain doesn’t scare me—
I just want what’s real.”
And still—
you stay.
You stay.
You stay.
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[Bridge] (spoken, layered over a low harp and static)
I met you in june.
Didn’t know it was love.
Just thought—
“why do I finally want to stay alive when she’s near?”
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[Verse 3]
Now I trace your face in the morning light,
and I’m scared, but I breathe, and for once—it feels right.
You said “maybe when we’re old,” I said “not without you,”
and now every word tastes like something true.
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[Outro]
my ghost, my guide,
you’re the heat in my chest when I swore I had died.
If I leave, let me leave in your light—
but not tonight.
No—
not tonight.
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