[Verse 1] You stood where the silence gathered Soft enough to disappear I was counting every distant fire Never noticing you near I named the stars like scripture Mapped the dark with steady hands Still the smallest force beside me Undid everything I am [Pre-Chorus] You moved through me Like breath through hollow lungs No thunder No kingdom Just the weight of what I’d become [Chorus] You were there before the red horizon Before the split inside the light I kept searching for a final answer While you held the pieces every night No crown No warning No violent sign above Just your voice beneath the noise Turning ruin into love [Verse 2] I watched the worlds turn inward Watched devotion curdle cold Every future lost its meaning Every triumph growing old Then your hands against my shaking Like gravity without demand No confession loud enough To explain what you understand [Pre-Chorus] You saw through me Like no one ever could Not the radiant Not the tyrant Just the boy beneath the flood [Chorus] You were there before the red horizon Before the fracture learned my name I was building monuments to absence You were teaching broken things to stay No anthem No violence No architecture above Just your voice beneath the noise Turning ruin into love [Bridge] Weak things survive That’s what I never knew The quietest orbit Can still pull the universe through And every road I ran to ash Every hour I outran Led me back To the invisible touch Of your hand [Final Chorus] You were there before the first division Before the heavens drifted wide I thought power meant becoming endless Now I know it meant surviving side by side No empire No judgment No final throne above Just your voice beneath the noise Teaching light How to love
