[Intro]
Clock on the sill, rain writes my name
I light one match and watch the pages flame
A slow, soft burn that smells of coffee and old grief
I stand in the doorway learning how to breathe
[Verse 1]
I burned your letters down to ash and light (10)
Watched ink unwind like constellations in the night (12)
The sidewalk kept my footprints, soft and small (10)
I walked them until the city stopped replaying our fall (13)
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Nights were long, the room hummed with missing you (11)
I learned each quiet sound — a hollow rendezvous (12)
Took every tremor, folded it into my chest (11)
Held breath until the silence taught me how to rest (11)
[Chorus]
I found myself where your shadow couldn’t reach (11)
On window ledges, in the language of the street (12)
I found my name in cracks of dawn, in coffee steam (12)
I stitch the light back in — I’m more than what you dream (12)
[Verse 2]
Mended the sweater you left on my chair (9)
Turned the collar into armor, wore the open air (11)
I learned the rhythm of my own two feet (10)
Took back the playlist, played the songs I used to keep (12)
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Small wins: I answer calls and greet the day (10)
I buy one extra sunrise, let it stay (9)
I laugh the way a porchlight laughs at rain (10)
And find a little grace in saying my own name (11)
[Chorus - Variation]
I found myself where your shadow couldn’t reach (11)
On crowded trains, in quiet rooms, beneath a speech (13)
I learn the map by heart — each road, each seam (11)
I mend the seams with louder songs and kinder dreams (12)
[Bridge]
I once needed your compass; I kept lost maps (10)
Now I draw my own lines, trace my own collapse (11)
I keep the scar that taught me how to feel (10)
Turn it into a hinge, and let the world reveal (11)
[Breakdown]
There’s a mirror on the stair that doesn’t lie (10)
It shows a stranger who smiles back with my eyes (11)
No echoes of your goodbye can pull me under (12)
I keep a little thunder — it’s mine to wonder (11)
[Final Chorus - Lift]
I found myself where your shadow couldn’t reach (11)
In rooftop gardens, in the promises I keep (12)
I found my voice in mornings that refuse to sleep (12)
I’m learning to stay, to sing, to hold my heartbeat deep (13)
[Outro]
So leave the door ajar, let late light come and teach (11)
I am the quiet harbor out of reach of your speech (13)
I found myself — and now I know what I can be (11)
I am my own direction, sing it back to me (11)
