[Verse 1] The red light faded out at five AM / Embers cooling on my boot soles, gray as winter rain / Your handprint still there above the mantle stain I counted what was gone before I named what stays [Pre-Chorus] The house didn't make us who we are / We were always breathing under bigger stars / Morning came slow through a broken pane / Showed me love could not unmake your name [Chorus 1] What survived the fire was your voice in mine / The way you breathe when everything falls out of line / It wasn't brick or beam or pictures on the wall / It was how we stood through it, each other's call / What survived the fire still breathes in me [Verse 2] You were standing there with soot along your jaw / Asking if I saw what stayed after all that raw / Your worn wool jacket smelled like smoke and cedar fringe / Just the way you knew exactly how to say my name [Pre-Chorus] The house didn't make us who we are / We were always breathing under bigger stars / Morning came slow through a broken pane / Showed me love could not unmake your name [Chorus 2] What survived the fire was your voice in mine / The way you breathe when everything falls out of line / That stubborn patch of ivy where nothing's supposed to grow / It wasn't brick or beam or pictures on the wall / It was how we stood through it, each other's call / What survived the fire still breathes in me [Bridge] The smoke will lift and settle where it can / We sweep the ash as long as I can hold your hand / One small thing at a time we rebuild the room / Out of what was lost, something better starts to bloom [Final Chorus] What survived the fire was your voice in mine / The way you breathe when everything falls out of line / That stubborn patch of ivy where nothing's supposed to grow / It wasn't brick or beam or pictures on the wall / It was how we stood through it, each other's call / What survived the fire still breathes in me
