Exit Date

Exit Date Written for the love that lives behind walls. Verse 1 I count the days that don’t belong to us, A calendar with missing years. You tell me, “Baby, I’ll be right here,” But right here still ain’t here. I can hear your laugh through a speaker, Feel your heart between every line. But I can’t steal your hoodie off the chair, Or wake up knowing you’re mine. Pre-Chorus Everybody says love conquers all, But nobody talks about concrete and steel. Nobody tells you how forever feels When forever can’t become real. Chorus I wish you had an exit date, A sunrise circled on a page. Something I could count down to, Instead of learning how to wait. I don’t need castles in the sky, Or promises that time can’t keep. I just want one ordinary life, Where you’re beside me when I sleep. I’d trade a thousand “I miss you’s” For one slow dance in our kitchen light. I love you more than words can say… I just wish these walls would lose the fight. Verse 2 We talk about food and stupid jokes, Your new bunkie, my crazy dog. The smallest conversations somehow Become the brightest stars I’ve got. You ask me what I’m eating tonight, I ask if everything’s okay. It’s funny how a simple text Can carry me another day. Bridge If love alone could turn the key, You’d already be home with me. If tears could bend the hands of time, I’d cry until the morning shined. But life don’t always write fair endings, Some chapters linger far too long. So I’ll keep building little pieces Of our future inside these songs. Final Chorus I wish you had an exit date, Not because my love is weak. But because I’ve dreamed a thousand times About the day we’d finally meet. I’d hold your hand through grocery aisles, Laugh about the smallest things. I’d finally hear your heartbeat close, Instead of hearing phone lines ring. And if this lifetime never gives us Everything we’ve dreamed about… Know every sunrise that I save Still whispers your name out loud. Outro Maybe love isn’t measured By the miles we couldn’t cross… Maybe it’s measured by the hearts That never stopped choosing each other, Even when the world said they should. So until the day this story changes, Or until my last goodbye… I’ll keep loving you… Without an exit date. 🌅♾️