[INTRO — rain / dry piano] I heard a letter carried by the weather, your voice breaking softly through the rain. I thought I heard— come home. I listened closer. That wasn't the word. [Silence] Us. [VERSE 1] Funny how a little word can carry so much weight. Two hearts, two lives, and everything we couldn't say. Somewhere between holding on and learning how to let things go, we forgot the little word that once meant— we're not alone. [PRE-CHORUS] Not your side. Not mine. Not who was wrong this time. Just your hand reaching through the rain trying to find mine. [CHORUS] US— was the word inside the weather. US— was the reason you still called. Not "save me." Not "change me." Just— don't let what we love get lost. [LONG THRASHING SUSTAIN] UUUUUUUUUUUS— If there's something still between us, something pain couldn't undo— I'll keep reaching through the weather if you're reaching for me too. [VERSE 2] Maybe love isn't never breaking. Maybe home isn't staying dry. Maybe it's having somebody beside you when the rain fills up the sky. Maybe we don't need the old days. Maybe we don't need to go back. We can meet each other where we are and build from that. [BREAKDOWN — piano] You don't have to carry me. I don't have to carry you. Maybe all we really need is somewhere safe to tell the truth. You hurt. I hurt. Sometimes love does too. But pain doesn't have to turn me and you into— me versus you. [Silence] Remember us. [FINAL CHORUS — release] US— when the whole world gets too heavy. US— when the road gets hard to see. Not losing you inside of me. Not losing me inside of we. Just two people choosing something bigger than who wins or leaves. So let it rain. Let it pour. We don't have to fight the storm. We just have to stop turning it into each other anymore. [Beat cuts] And if someday we lose the road— say the word. I'll know. [Whisper] Us. [FINAL SUSTAIN — CLEAN → THRASHING] UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUS— [Scream dissolves into rainfall] [OUTRO] I heard a letter carried by the weather. Thought it was calling me back home. But home wasn't what I heard. It was something we can't be alone. You. Me. Still reaching. [Dry piano] Us.
