-Candlelight & Steel-
INTRO (soft falsetto, breathy)
Mmm…Asha, are you ready to begin?
Aaah…mmm
Mmmwah…
For my joy…
Some love don’t announce itself.
It survives.
VERSE 1
Quiet strength, never crowned or praised
A pure heart hidden in a war-torn place
You love my children like fate wrote it in ink
Not borrowed affection, it’s deeper than instinct
King without noise, joy without proof
Virgo fire baptized in truth
Tryna get it right while the world stays wrong
You move with patience, but your depth stays strong
Mind lit like coals under midnight skies
Body remembers you before my eyes
Soul on fire, but controlled, contained
Like a storm that knows your name
HOOK (low, haunting, almost whispered)
Who could hold a candle to you
When the dark knows your face?
I choose you in the silence
I choose you in the rain
Who could hold a candle to you
When the weight starts to press through?
No someday, no maybe
In the dark, I choose you
VERSE 2
Pittsburgh steel in your breath when you stand
God-forged spine, never bent by the land
Westinghouse Bridge over pressure and doubt
You don’t collapse, you hold the route
Black king wisdom, nine lives wide
Eyes carry storms you survived
Born on the twentieth, September cold
Old soul wrapped in a body of gold
Time tried scars, but it sharpened your tone
Years behind walls couldn’t touch your throne
You grew roses where hope went quiet
Turned isolation into defiant silence
Lifted yourself where shame once slept
Carried others while your own heart wept
HOOK (echoed, layered, more tension)
Who could hold a candle to you
When the night leans in close?
I choose you through the fracture
I choose you when it’s cold
BRIDGE (strings swell, half-time)
January twenty-fourth
The universe held its breath
Two souls stitched back together
From unfinished sentences
I won’t rush what’s meant to endure
I won’t chase what’s already sure
Patience wrapped in gravity
Our pace is destiny
BREAKDOWN (spoken, raw, minimal)
Time was never our enemy…
Fear was.
And we survived that too.
FINAL HOOK (full cinematic release)
Who could hold a candle to you
When the world starts to fade?
I choose you without witnesses
I choose you unafraid
Who could hold a candle to you
Built solid, built true
In the dark, in the distance
I still choose you
OUTRO (whispered)
Just stay beside me.
We don’t need the light.
Mmmwah…thank you
EmpressAsha1008_AT
