Verse 1
I was halfway listening to my friend,
Nodding along to a story I’d heard before.
The house was loud with familiar voices, drifting in and out through the screen door.
Then I looked up.
There was a boy with tan skin and jade eyes,
Laughing quietly by the light spilling through the window.
He stood next to my brother like he’d always been there.
Verse 2
I noticed everything all at once—
The way his hair fell in his face,
He was tall.
Beautiful, in that irritating kind of way.
The kind of handsome that made you forget
What you were about to say.
I stared too long.
And when he caught me, he smirked—
Like he already knew the effect he had on poor girls like me.
Chorus
I didn’t know then
That I’d spend years chasing that smile through crowded rooms.
I didn’t know then
That those jade eyes would become my favorite place to land.
I thought I was meeting a stranger
In the middle of an ordinary day.
I didn’t know…
Verse 3
It started with nervous laughter.
And drives with nowhere to go.
He kissed me under a starlit sky, and his arms started to feel like home.
Then first apartments,
Secondhand furniture,
Doing life on our own.
It was burnt dinners, Fighting over nothing and making up before bed.
A thousand ordinary moments
That quietly became everything.
Chorus
I didn’t know then
That he was my answered prayer.
I didn’t know then
That he would become the center of every dream I kept.
I didn’t know…
Bridge
Then suddenly there was white lace and shaking vows,
Tiny heartbeat echoes filled darkened rooms.
Two little boys with my stubborn heart and their daddy’s smile shining up at me.
And I think about that girl I used to be—,
Staring across a crowded room.
Completely unaware…
Final Chorus
I didn’t know then
That the boy I saw across the room,
Would be the father playing with our sons in the backyard.
The man reaching for my hand in the dark.
I only knew that he looked at me.
And now, years later, after vows, anniversaries and bedtime stories,
He still does.
Outro
The house was loud with familiar voices, drifting in and out through the screen door.
Then I looked up.
I saw Jade eyes and rest of my life looking back at me.
