“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
