“YOU NEVER WISHED FOR ME”

[INTRO — whispered, soft piano + acoustic guitar, 100 BPM] [whisper] I held the shape of you in my breath… Before I knew what longing was… [VERSE 1 — steady modern-country storytelling, building energy] We walked side by side — Two shadows learning the meaning of gravity. Your fingers once threaded through mine — The night leaning close whispering where our hearts should go. Glittering stars like small lanterns guiding me inward, toward the truth — I couldn’t yet see. [soft country echo:] toward the truth… [PRE-CHORUS — build, drums enter lightly] I never saw your quiet steps leading away. The warmth, the naming, the mirrors we became — Your hands learned to disappear before I ever noticed the cold. [CHORUS — full emotional lift, acoustic + electric guitars, belting delivery] You never wished for me — wondered what it could be. I was dreaming — in the language of devotion, You were listening — in the dialect of retreat. You never wished for me — but I kept wishing anyway. [whispered echo: ]wondered… what it could be… [VERSE 2 — stronger voice, fiddle + steel guitar underline emotion] Our nights spent together — two wandering souls curled inside the same hush. Then you drew the borders between us — a map that no longer led to me. I searched your eyes for the word forever, while fiercely falling… for you… [soft country harmony:] falling… [PRE-CHORUS — higher energy, vocal grit] My love blinded me — a soulmate in the starlit part of you. But the truth was quieter, sharper: you were reading my heart like a warning. [CHORUS — belting, full country band, emotional peak] You never wished for me — wondered what it could be. my first love — a truth carved into the hushed bones of me. You never wished for me — it took leaving to see. [harmony echo:] to see… to see… [BRIDGE — emotional tension, slide guitar mournful] You took a distant road away — a path paved in unspoken endings. Why? ......choose the storm for us… never cherishing the fragile light I carried… toward you… [whisper, breaking] …but still I held it… toward you… [FINAL VERSE — all-singers country-gospel warmth, acoustic downbeat] Now I stand where the hurt once lived, the wind no longer trembles with your name. A one-sided love can still be holy — it can teach you how to be brave, even when the door was never meant for you. I forgive the shattering — only your secrets know… released from my becoming — carrying only what was mine to keep. [FINAL CHORUS — softer intensity, reflective country outro] You never wished for me — wondered what it could be… now I whisper — to the part of me that stayed [soft harmony fade] [OUTRO — fading acoustic guitar + brushed drums] In the letting…—