Soft Hours In A Hard Life

Verse 1

I drink cold coffee at the kitchen sink

Watching daylight lose the fight

There’s a note I wrote and never sent

Still folded in my back pocket tonight

Everybody thinks I’m doing fine

Because I don’t complain out loud

But you don’t survive by being strong

You survive by staying around

Pre-Chorus

I don’t need a miracle

I just need the night to slow

Chorus

These are soft hours in a hard life

When the world finally shuts up

I don’t need answers or headlines

I just need a little enough

To remind me I’m still breathing

When the weight won’t let me rest

These are soft hours in a hard life

When I talk to my own chest

Verse 2

I keep my boots by the bedroom door

Like I might leave before I sleep

There’s a highway humming outside

Like it knows too much about me

They say time is a good friend

But it never picks up the phone

It just watches you grow into

The things you used to outrun

Pre-Chorus

I don’t want to disappear

I just want to feel here

Chorus

These are soft hours in a hard life

When the silence starts to care

I don’t need perfect or promises

I just need to know I’m there

Somewhere past the second guessing

Somewhere I don’t hold my breath

These are soft hours in a hard life

When I talk to my own chest

Bridge

If tomorrow comes in heavy

I won’t ask it to be kind

I’ve been carrying my own name

Like it’s something I can find

Final Chorus

These are soft hours in a hard life

When the dark stops acting tough

I don’t need saving or silver lines

I just need a little enough

To believe I’m not invisible

When the days don’t make no sense

These are soft hours in a hard life

When I finally feel like I exist