The Heart of the Home

“The Heart of This Home”

VERSE 1

Eleven years

And somehow you still stop

For every little thing

A bug on the sidewalk

A question in the backseat

A flower handed to you like treasure

You never rush their wonder

And I watch our boys grow

Not just taller

But softer because of you

The way you kneel down to listen

Like what they’re saying

Might be the most important thing in the world

To them

It is

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PRE-CHORUS

You live like moments matter

So somehow

They do

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CHORUS

You are the heart of this home

In the way our sons laugh

In the way our daughter runs to you

Like safety has a face

It’s in the pancakes on slow mornings

The prayers whispered half asleep

The way you make ordinary days

Feel like something we should keep

And one day when they’re older

I know what they’ll remember most

Not the big things

Just the way their mother loved them

Fully

In every moment she was given

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VERSE 2

You notice everything

The pause before tears

The quiet after school

The little changes in their eyes

Before anyone else can see them

And somehow

In the middle of the noise

And laundry

And dishes

And exhaustion

You still choose presence

You still sit on the floor

You still read one more book

You still hold little hands

Like time isn’t slipping through them

Even when it is

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PRE-CHORUS

I think love looks different now

Than I thought it did before you

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CHORUS

You are the heart of this home

In every memory we’re making

In every piece of peace we feel

You’re there before the rest of us

Holding it together quietly

And if our children stand tall someday

Kind

Safe

Certain they were loved

It’ll be because

Their mother gave pieces of herself

To build something bigger than herself

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BRIDGE

I used to think love

Was measured in grand gestures

Now I think

It might just be this

Staying soft

In a hard world

Choosing people

Again and again

Turning small moments

Into a childhood they’ll spend forever missing

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FINAL CHORUS

So if they grow up someday

And carry warmth into this world

If they know how to love deeply

How to listen

How to stay

It’ll be because they were raised

By a woman

Who made every ordinary moment

Feel sacred

You are the heart of this home

And we are all better

Because you’re in it