**Title: "September Skies and Butterfly Goodbyes"**
**Verse 1**
*Backpack dreams and chalk-dust halls,*
*We rode the bus where sunlight falls.*
*You sat two rows ahead of me,*
*Eyes like stars—I couldn’t breathe.*
*Autumn leaves danced in your hair,*
*A whispered crush I couldn’t share.*
*The brakes would hum, the engine sighed—*
*My heart raced every time you’d rise.*
**Chorus**
*Oh, September skies, your laughter’s my refrain,*
*In every yellow bus, I see your face again.*
*I wrote you letters filled with hope, unsigned, unseen,*
*You were my first crash, my almost everything.*
**Verse 2**
*At the bus stop, ink-blurred hands,*
*Scrawled your name in trembling drafts.*
*“Meet me where the marigolds grow”—*
*But the wind stole the words I’d never show.*
*You boarded with a ribboned braid,*
*My courage crumpled, love delayed.*
*The door closed with a hollow clang,*
*My voice lost in the engine’s bang.*
**Chorus**
*Oh, September skies, your laughter’s my refrain,*
*In every yellow bus, I see your face again.*
*I wrote you letters filled with hope, unsigned, unseen,*
*You were my first crash, my almost everything.*
**Bridge**
*Now years have passed, but I still keep*
*That crumpled note and memories sweet.*
*Your eyes—still bright in rearview glass—*
*A fleeting joy that time can’t pass.*
**Outro**
*So here’s to bus seats, unspoken rhymes,*
*To first loves lost in backward time.*
*Though you never knew my name,*
*That autumn crush still feels the same…*
*In September skies.*
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**Structure:** Wistful, acoustic melody with a nostalgic chorus. Imagery of school buses, autumn, and unsent letters ties the memory together, celebrating the beauty of fleeting youth and unrequited love.
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