[Verse 1] Mist on the heather, breath in the cold, Old stones watching stories unfold. We left the road where the world couldn’t see, Walked into quiet, just you and me. Ruin of a chapel, sky made of gray, My heart held its wildness and tried not to say— That part of me wanted the soft and the sweet, But thunder was waiting under our feet. [Pre-Chorus] So tie what I am to what won’t break, No borrowed courage, no easy escape. If this is the calm before the storm, Let it be real. Let it be sworn. [Chorus] Handfast my forever to your steady hand, In the hush of the Highlands, in the bones of the land. Let the world come looking for weakness and find— Two, not one. A vow made physical, knotted in time, Your name in my pulse like a bell in the night. Let the storm learn the cost of the line they cross— Two, not one. [Verse 2] We stood there in silence longer than planned, Like time was a river we could command. You said, “We don’t have to go back yet,” low, And hope hit my chest like a sudden glow. I laughed like I didn’t need this to be true, Then you looked at me like you always do. Like love isn’t pretty, love is a choice— Love is the staying. Love is a voice. [Pre-Chorus] So don’t promise easy, don’t promise safe, Promise me truth when it changes shape. If we get one moment, let it be loud— Let it be holy. Let it be vowed. [Chorus] Handfast my forever… (repeat) [Bridge] No noble leaving, no “I’ll do it alone,” No disappearing act when the dark comes close. If we fall, we fall side by side— If we rise, we rise with nothing to hide. Tie the future with both our scars, Swear me in under indifferent stars. And if the world breaks at the edge of this hill— It breaks with us standing, stubborn and still. [Final Chorus] Handfast my forever… (repeat)
