The Quiet Light

[Intro] (acoustic guitar only, fingerpicking, soft and warm) [Verse 1] The room is quiet, only the clock counts the minutes away, You’re curled up in a ball, wrapped in my old sweater today. Outside, the city’s loud, but here it’s a different world somehow, Like we’ve hidden from all the winds and the storms that come around. [Chorus] You’re my quietest, truest kind of light, Even if the whole world turns off all its lights. I don’t need big words or promises to last a hundred years, Just knowing you’re here, just knowing we’re alone right here. [Verse 2] I remember how we got lost in a neighborhood so strange, Laughing at the map that kept lying to us all along. Now it feels like every road was leading right to this place, To this moment when you quietly smiled at me, no words at all. [Chorus] You’re my quietest, truest kind of light, Even if the whole world turns off all its lights. I don’t need big words or promises to last a hundred years, Just knowing you’re here, just knowing we’re alone right here. [Bridge] (guitar quiets down, strings and pad create a stillness, vocal softer) Tomorrow might be harder, there’ll be worries and things to do, But I’ll always come back to the place where it’s warm and true. Back to where you’re waiting, where it smells like tea and home, Where even silence is a whole song on its own. [Chorus] (full instrumentation returns, warm and confident, but still tender) You’re my quietest, truest kind of light, Even if the whole world turns off all its lights. I don’t need big words or promises to last a hundred years, Just knowing you’re here, just knowing we’re alone right here. [Outro] (guitar gradually fades, strings softly sustain)