[Instrumental Intro] One... Two... Three... Four... [Verse 1] Not because you were kind Not because you got it right Somewhere inside the same night Your name lit up my phone You didn’t say the perfect thing You only stayed until I spoke There were nights your smile went missing Sentences you left half-made Still, you made it here somehow Scars and all Regrets and all You don’t have to turn Every night into light I am here I can see you Before any word can come [Pre-Chorus 1: filtered kick enters; piano arpeggio widens and strings begin a rising counterline] Before I understood Before I knew what moved Something in my chest Had already answered you [Chorus 1] Before the words Before I called it love Your breath before “hello” Had already reached me Before the tears Before it had a name Under everything we couldn’t say Something kept shining I don’t need to know Who you are to me You are simply here with me And I’ll call that love [Piano Release: no new lead lyric; bright syncopated grand piano expands the chorus motif over four-on-the-floor drums, sidechained bass and rising orchestral layers] (Before the words) (Before the love) (You were there) (You stayed) [Verse 2: drums withdraw to filtered kick; felt-piano figure returns with pizzicato strings] The world grows wide at night Even crowded rooms leave space When every face blurred at the edges You were still yourself You don’t have to be an answer You don’t have to earn a name That you lived until today That alone is enough All the fragments you kept carrying All the things you couldn’t lose They were never useless pieces They were how You made it through [Pre-Chorus 2: same melodic shape as Pre-Chorus 1; bass and strings rise one octave higher] Before “thank you” found a voice Before the silence moved Something in my chest Had already answered you [Chorus 2: same progression and phrasing as Chorus 1; wider piano and denser independent string lines] Before the words Before I called it love Your breath before “hello” Had already reached me Before the name Before we understood Long before we chose the words Something had begun I don’t need to know Who you are to me You were simply by my side And that was the miracle [Post-Chorus / Piano Release 2: lead drops out; four distant voices become rhythmic fragments around the piano] La-la-la Before the words La-la-la Before the love You were here I was changed The world had changed Its color [Bridge: all drums disappear; exposed felt piano and low cello, free conversational phrasing] There were nights I couldn’t say “I love you” Some days “thank you” Came too late The closer you stood The less I saw I knew it Only when it almost went away You smiled beside me Cried where I couldn’t see You stayed silent too None of this Was owed to me [Bridge Quiet Turn: piano motif reduced to single notes; the first distant harmony enters on the final word of each phrase] If words are too small I’ll sing before them If love has no name I’ll stay beside it Even broken still Even unbeautiful still If you won’t give up on yourself I’ll call that light [Instrumental Rise] [Final Chorus] Before the words Before I called it love Your breath before “hello” Had already reached me Before the tears Before it had a name Under everything we couldn’t say Something kept shining I don’t need to know Who you are to me You are simply here with me And I’ll call that love [Final Chorus Repeat: same chord cycle; all five voices gradually converge, highest piano octave and widest strings] Before the words Before I say “I love you” Long before it became a word You had already reached me Before we knew What we were meant to be We found each other while still lost And that Was the miracle I don’t need to know Who you are to me Maybe it isn’t romance But I can’t say It isn’t love [Final Piano Release: lead vocal stops; full house drums and luminous octave piano carry the catharsis, with distant five-voice fragments] La-la-la Before the words La-la-la Before the love Thank you For being here Thank you For staying [Outro: drums and bass disappear; solo felt piano returns with a high cello harmonic and room tone] Before the words Before I called it love Your breath Before “hello” You were simply there And that Was a miracle to me [End: Abadd9, long piano decay]
