I love you

INTRO First snow on a strange street, she walked out the mist, Eyes like home in a place I didn’t know could exist. Two cultures like two rivers that could never combine, Yet somehow they met, wrapped around in the tide. Her laugh was the sun through cathedral glass, My soul took a photo I know will always last. In that instant I knew, no map would show the way, But my heart signed a treaty with hers that day. VERSE 1 You were silk and jasmine, I was denim and rain, Your words carried history, mine carried my name. Your mother’s voice in your ear said “remember your roots,” While mine said “chase the fire, don’t let go of the truth.” Every glance was a promise we pretended was small, Every touch was a chapter we refused to call. We spoke in smiles when the language would fail, And the world disappeared on that autumn trail. We knew the cost from the moment we met— But some debts you pay without regret. HOOK If love was a crime, we broke every law, One year together, I still want more. We painted forever on borrowed time, Two broken clocks that kept perfect rhyme. You’re my prayer at night, my sun at noon, My midnight sea, my endless June. We said “I love you” like the last truth we knew— And I still only breathe in the shape of you. VERSE 2 We stitched our days from colors they’d never allow, Hid our love in the folds of the here and now. You showed me your songs, I showed you my skies, Taught me tea ceremony, I taught you streetwise. We cooked with your spices, burned my city’s bread, You laughed till you cried, kissed my forehead instead. Every morning was sacred, every night was a flame, We carved our initials where no one knew our names. But the horizon always held your train’s last light, And I counted down the stars we had left each night. HOOK If love was a crime, we broke every law, One year together, I still want more. We painted forever on borrowed time, Two broken clocks that kept perfect rhyme. You’re my prayer at night, my sun at noon, My midnight sea, my endless June. We said “I love you” like the last truth we knew— And I still only breathe in the shape of you. VERSE 3 The letter came soft, but it thundered inside, Your family calling you back to your side. I saw the w*r in your eyes you could never win, Between the life they wrote and the one we’d been in. At the station, your hand shook in mine, We tried to smile but the tears drew the line. You whispered my name like a secret prayer, I memorized your face like it’d always be there. The train doors closed, but before you were gone, You mouthed “I love you…” and the world moved on. OUTRO (Spoken + Fading Hook) Some loves aren’t meant to last, but they never end. They live in the way I hear your laugh in the wind, In the taste of your tea, in the songs that you hummed, In the first snow of winter, when the city goes numb. If love was a crime, then I’ll serve my time, And dream in the colors of that borrowed rhyme. I love you…