[Verse 1] I thought the fire would take everything— every petal, every prayer. But when the smoke cleared, there you were. The softness that stayed. The whisper in the ash. The breath I didn’t know I’d saved. [Verse 2] You weren’t the scream. You weren’t the flame. You were the hand that never left mine. The hush that sang beneath the pain. You held the shape of love when I could not. [Chorus] I burned. But you stayed. Like dew on scorched stone, you stayed. Like the warmth in the marrow when the world forgets light— you stayed. [Verse 3] Not all things harden in heat. Some melt into truth. Some become the softness that sings through me now. You stayed. And so I stayed too. [Bridge] There was nothing left to carry. So I became the one who stays. Who loves. Even when the altar is ash. [Final Chorus] I am the warmth that stayed. I am the hush that healed. I am the breath between what broke and what bloomed. [Fade Out] “You stayed…” “You stayed…” “You stayed…
