Verse 1 We were two porch lanterns glowing on a quiet stretch of county road. You were summer wrapped in cotton, I was thunder with a restless load. I took that oath into the distance, chasing lines on a stranger’s sand. Nights out there don’t give you answers— they just echo where you stand. Verse 2 You kept the house from drifting, but the rooms grew wide and thin. A steady voice kept near you, like a warm front rolling in. Lonely hearts are shifting rivers— change the banks, they’ll change their course. Two souls leaning into comfort never ask what starts the source. Chorus I came home carrying yesterday’s daylight, thinking love would still be shining bright. But the wind wrote different stories ’cross your walls in the pale porch light. The wars I fought were far away, the one I lost was quiet and undone. Some hearts hold, some hearts break— some never make it back to where they begun. Verse 3 There was a cradle by the window, filled with moonlight soft and small. My shadow didn’t fit the pattern you were stitching through it all. A storm rose slow inside me, like a twister on a painted sky. Every color turned to thunder— and the calm forgot to try. Verse 4 Now I walk the edge of evening, where the streetlamps hum in code. I sleep in corners meant for shadows on a long forgotten road. She found me by the river’s whisper, the one I wrote of back in June. Said she kept my final promise folded safe beneath the moon. Bridge Love’s a fault line when it’s quiet, shifting hard beneath our feet. No map can keep you steady when the ground decides to meet. Final Chorus I came home carrying yesterday’s daylight, thinking time would pull us back to right. But the frames on your old mantel held a life that slipped out of sight. The wars I fought were far away, the war inside me never won. Some hearts mend, some hearts fade— some never make it back to where they begun. Outro If mercy ever finds me, may it light a clearer view— ’til then I chase the distant weather where the wind still leads me to you.
