Second Chance In Your Eyes

[Verse 1]
You sleep in your rocket sheets
Tiny socks on the bedroom floor
Same cowlick in your hair
Same frown I used to wear before
You twitch in a midnight dream
Mumble words you don’t even know
I stand guard in the doorway
Fightin’ every shadow from long ago
[Chorus]
I see a second chance in your eyes
All the days that I barely survived
Every crack in my heart
You’re the place it can start
I get to raise the boy I had to hide
I won’t fail myself this time
I won’t fail myself this time
[Verse 2]
Phone rings
I let it ring
His name still burns on the screen
He taught me how to disappear
You’ll learn what it means to be seen
You cry and I don’t walk away
I just sit on the kitchen tile
Count your breaths on my broken chest
’Til your storm turns into a smile (yeah)
[Chorus]
I see a second chance in your eyes
All the days that I barely survived
Every crack in my heart
You’re the place it can start
I get to raise the boy I had to hide
I won’t fail myself this time
I won’t fail myself this time
[Bridge]
If my hands start to shake
When old ghosts come alive
I will hold you closer
Teach my younger self to try
Every “Daddy
Stay”
Heals a younger me inside
You say “Look
We’re the same”
And I finally feel alright (alright)
[Chorus]
I see a second chance in your eyes
All the days that I barely survived
Every scar on my past
Turns to gold when you laugh
I get to raise the boy I had to hide
I won’t fail myself this time
I won’t fail us this time

Warm, late-night R&B ballad with male vocals; soft electric piano and mellow bass under intimate verses, then drums bloom in for a hopeful, head-nod chorus. Subtle guitar licks and airy pads lift the “sad to glad” arc, with stacked harmonies on the hook and a key change lift on the final chorus for emotional release., sad, r&b, heartfelt