Verse 1 Back in the schoolyard dust, under that old oak shade Your laugh cut through the recess noise like sunlight through a blade Pigtails and freckles, grace in every careless step I didn't know forever yet, but I swore I'd never forget Pre-Chorus Heart too small to hold the weight Of a promise I never spoke Just watched you glow, untouchable While the world stayed ordinary smoke Chorus And the echoes keep calling your name through the years Soft as the wind through the fence at sixteen I carried that light like a lantern in rain Never knowing it was burning my skin Till the flame turned to ash in my hands Verse 2 Three decades of highways, army boots, and late-night drives Your face in the rearview, fading but never quite gone from my eyes I built you a throne out of daydreams and time Polished it bright while my own life slipped by Bridge Then the screen lit up one quiet night Same smile, same tilt of the head But the pedestal cracked when your words hit the light And the girl I'd worshipped was already wed Chorus Now the echoes are quieter, just whispers in dust No more chasing that ghost through the rust I finally see what I held all along Was a beautiful lie I sang in my song And the silence that follows feels strangely like love Outro (soft, fading banjo pluck over lingering synth pad) So I walk this road empty-handed now The halo's gone, but the dawn's breaking through And maybe that's the sweetest sound of all Letting the dream girl go... letting me go too
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