[Verse 1 — Male]
Midnight on the watchtower, radio hisses low,
Your name is a comet through the orders they bestow.
A letter slipped between my armor plates — your ink still warm,
I fold it to my heartbeat as the camp bell warns.
[Verse 1 — Female]
They line us by the river where the moon forgets to shine,
I trace the margins of your handwriting, like a contraband sign.
My patrol boots know the rhythm of the promises we made,
But duty writes us strangers on the margins of parade.
[Pre-Chorus — Male]
We learned to speak in glances, in the hush between alarms,
[Pre-Chorus — Female]
We learned to hide our names inside the seams of our palms.
[Chorus — Duet]
Battle of hearts, we fight and fall,
Two lovers on opposite walls.
Echoes of your whisper pull me close,
Gunfire keeps the truth on hold.
[Verse 2 — Male]
I catch your silhouette through searchlight snow and wire,
Your shadow makes a doorway where I keep a lighter.
Every clash of metal tastes like memory and coal,
I keep your laugh like currency, tucked beneath my soul.
[Verse 2 — Female]
You move like a rumor through the smoke and the ash,
Your jacket still smells of the rain from the night we almost passed.
I pressed my palm to your chest through the fence and your shirt tore,
We traded vows like smuggled maps to someplace worth fighting for.
[Pre-Chorus — Male & Female alternating]
(M) I hold the map that leads back to your hand,
(F) I hide the flag that says I must stand.
(M) Orders carve the lines we’re made to cross,
(F) Love is the cost that counts as loss.
[Chorus — Duet (tighter/hooked)]
Battle of hearts — we rise, we fall,
Two lovers on opposite walls.
One touch and the whole world tilts,
War writes our names on splintered guilt.
[Bridge — Female (soft), Male (answer)]
(F) Tonight I fold the letter into paper wings,
(F) I think of every midnight when the distant church bell rings.
(M) I'll make a come-back story out of every scar and seam,
(M) I'll build a quiet harbor out of broken radio dreams.
[Bridge — Duet (climactic choice)]
(F) Run with me — through no-man's-land we'll steal the dawn,
(M) Or stay and hold the line, and be the story they pass on.
(F) Take my name and vanish it beneath another sky,
(M) I will be the echo so that you can fly.
[Chorus — Duet (final, altered/hopeful)]
Battle of hearts — we break, we mend,
Two lovers learning how to bend.
We drop our weights on the coldest ground,
Find the pulse where silence sounds.
[Outro — Male & Female, whisper]
(M) If the world remembers how we kept our vows,
(F) They'll say we loved between the gunfire and the ploughs.
(Both) Opposite walls couldn't keep the tide —
We walked through fire and came alive.
