What’s Real Is You
by Robert Ramage
Tempo / Feel:
Mid-tempo uplifting | Piano + acoustic guitar | Warm build | Hopeful resolve
Intro
(Soft piano, gentle guitar)
I need to say this out loud
So it’s heard the right way…
Verse 1
Some words are just words in the air
Passing time, nothing there
A laugh, a line, a moment gone
No emotion to lean on
Nothing hidden, nothing deep
Nothing I’d ever keep
There’s no fire, no secret flame
Just conversation, just a name
Verse 2
I see how it might look to you
From the outside looking through
I’m not blind to how it feels
When doubt gets louder than what’s real
I’m not pushing feelings aside
Or acting like you shouldn’t mind
I just need you to understand
Where my heart actually stands
Chorus
What’s real is you
And the life we’ve made
Not passing time or words that fade
Nothing out there pulls me away
What’s real is you, here, every day
I’m not chasing something new
I’m standing right here telling you
When the noise is stripped away
What’s real is you—and it stays
Verse 3
There was a moment, standing still
On the edge of what I feel
Someone spoke of forever love
Like it fell straight from above
But promises are easy to say
When you don’t live day to day
I didn’t cross, I didn’t fall
I stopped and questioned it all
Verse 4
The past love feels like it slipped behind
Quietly left without a sign
Still close enough to feel its weight
But too far gone to resurrect
This new light doesn’t pull or rush
It doesn’t need me to give up us
It just showed me what love should be
Calm, clear, honest, free
Chorus
What’s real is you
And the ground we’re on
Not every doubt that comes and goes
I won’t trade truth for fantasy
I won’t lose you chasing “maybe”
I’m not running from where I’ve been
I’m choosing us again
When the world tries to confuse
What’s real is you
Bridge
Love shouldn’t feel like walking blind
Or proving things a hundred times
It shouldn’t feel like constant fear
Of losing what you hold so dear
If love is strong, it stands in light
It doesn’t hide, it doesn’t fight
And here I am, no disguise
Looking you straight in the eyes
Final Chorus
What’s real is you
Not empty space
Not borrowed words or someone’s face
I don’t need the world to see
What you already are to me
If I ever lost my way
Hear me when I say
I’m right here, nothing to prove
What’s real is you
Outro
(Soft piano fade)
Some things only matter
When you tell them true
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