How It All Started

[Verse 1]
We were kids in your basement
Posters peeling off the wall
You were learning your first chords
I was trying not to fall
Summer air in the window
Dust dancing in the light
You laughed when you broke a string
Said
“Guess we’re here all night”
[Chorus]
That’s how it all started
One cracked cup of coffee
Your dad’s old guitar
And your eyes on me
Just one offhand question
“Stay a little longer?”
That crooked little moment
Keeps on growing stronger
Yeah
That’s how it all started
[Verse 2]
You traced lines on a roadmap
Said
“Someday I’ll leave this town”
I drew circles ’round your fingers
Said
“I’ll follow you around”
You played me that new chorus
Kept on tripping on the words
So I sang the missing pieces
Till the whole room finally heard
[Chorus]
That’s how it all started
Two hearts out of rhythm
Finding the same key
Till they sang as one
Just one quiet promise
“Let’s get outta here”
Now every crowded highway
Leads me back to there
Yeah
That’s how it all started
[Bridge]
We’ve had fights in parking lots
Silence on the interstate
Goodbyes we never meant
Doors we slammed too late
But when I start to wonder
If we’ve come undone
I see your hands on that old guitar
And we’re right back at day one (oh)
[Chorus]
That’s how it all started
You humming in the half-dark
Trying not to be heard
I was hanging on each word
Just one small beginning
We never saw coming
Every “still can’t live without you”
Is born from that first something
Yeah
That’s how it all started
That’s how it all started

folk, Warm fingerpicked acoustic guitar in an intimate room, male vocals up-close and confessional. First verse almost whispered, breath on the mic; light brushed percussion and soft piano enter by the second chorus. Subtle vocal doubles and low harmonies lift the hooks, with a gentle swell in the bridge then a final, fragile chorus that pulls the energy right back down., warm, emotional, acoustic, male vocals, singer-songwriter