[Intro: Instrumental – soft guitar, ambient water sounds, distant birds] [Verse 1: Soft Female Vocal, gentle fingerpicking] Down where the cattails lean and sigh, I built a life where no one asks why. The reeds remember, the moss keeps time, I learned to speak in rust and rhyme. [Pre-Chorus: Whispered harmony layers] Eyes in the dark, I see them stare, But the marsh is home, I breathe its air. [Chorus: Poetic, breathy delivery, swelling strings] They called me wild, said I was strange, But I just grew beyond their range. Among the shadows, I found my name— Love doesn’t echo, it stays like rain. [Post-Chorus: Echoed falsetto lines over ambient textures] Like rain, like rain... It stays, it stains... [Verse 2: Sparse guitar, delicate piano joins in] I knew a boy with river-soul hands, He saw the world through shifting sands. He touched my hair like it might break, Then vanished deep in the water's wake. [Pre-Chorus: Harmonic whispering builds tension] Truth is a feather, light and cruel, Justice hides in the quietest pool. [Chorus: Repeat with layered harmonies and emotional swell] They called me wild, said I was strange, But I just grew beyond their range. Among the shadows, I found my name— Love doesn’t echo, it stays like rain. [Post-Chorus: Nature SFX layered under fading piano notes] Like rain, like rain... It stays, it stains... [Bridge: Emotional Bridge – broken cadence, ghostly echo FX] Alone, not lonely—there’s a difference, you see. The trees knew my heart long before he did. Wolves never begged to be understood. Neither did I. Neither did I. [Hook: Soft but haunting repetition] I was not lost—I was left. And I stayed. And I stayed. [Break: Instrumental Break – ambient fade, water lapping, distant wind] [Chorus: Final chorus with subtle reverb, stripped-back arrangement] They called me wild, said I was strange, But I just grew beyond their range. Among the shadows, I found my name— Love doesn’t echo, it stays like rain. [Fade Out: Whispered line, fading guitar and ambient textures] It stays… Like rain…
