Best Friend’s Brother

[Verse 1]
Met you on a Monday
Barely reached your shoulder then
Twelve years old in your driveway
Laughing with my frozen hands
You were just my best friend’s brother
But you always looked my way
Two kids talking about forever
Like forever was a game
[Pre-Chorus]
You always sat beside me
Like you knew where I belonged
Every stupid inside joke
Still stuck inside my lungs
[Chorus]
You’re my best friend’s brother
My secret summer
Growing taller in the corners of my mind
Every almost-touch
Every shared stutter
I’ve been loving you in silence this whole time
If you could see the way you live inside my covers
My never-told
My never-crossed line
My best friend’s brother
My hidden wonder
How do I tell you that you’ve always been mine?
[Verse 2]
College came
We drifted
Different towns and different beds
Still
Your name kept showing up
In every story in my head
You’d call to talk to your sister
Then you’d stay on just to ask
“How’s your heart? You getting sleep?”
Like you could see straight through my mask
[Pre-Chorus]
You say I’m easy talking
Like you’ve known me from the start
You don’t know I built a home
In the echo of your heart
[Chorus]
You’re my best friend’s brother
My secret summer
Growing taller in the corners of my mind
Every almost-touch
Every shared stutter
I’ve been loving you in silence this whole time
If you could see the way you live inside my covers
My never-told
My never-crossed line
My best friend’s brother
My hidden wonder
How do I tell you that you’ve always been mine?
[Bridge]
What if I say it and you just smile?
Call it cute
Call it “just your style” (oh no)
What if I lose you and her at once?
Would it all come undone?
But what if you’re waiting
Waiting too
Scared to say you feel this
Too?
I’m so tired of “maybe someday soon”
When my someday’s always you
[Chorus]
You’re my best friend’s brother
My secret summer
Growing taller in the corners of my mind
Every almost-touch
Every shared stutter
I’ve been loving you in silence this whole time
If you could see the way you live inside my covers
Every version where your hand finds mine
My best friend’s brother
My quiet thunder
I think it’s time you know you’ve always been mine (oh-oh)
You’ve always been mine

pop, Warm modern pop ballad with intimate female vocals; soft piano and subtle acoustic guitar in the verses, airy pads underneath. Chorus lifts with wide, dreamy synths, steady mid-tempo drums, and stacked harmonies on the hook. Second chorus adds a bright countermelody and gentle tom fills; bridge drops to almost solo vocal and piano before a final, soaring chorus with ad-libbed top lines., emotional, deep, natural