When Your Heart Remembers

[Intro]
I waged my own war for life,
 I did not give up through strife.
I stood back up, though I was torn,
Now I fight to see one more dawn
 [Verse 1]

I crossed the rain, I crossed the flame,
With one small candle in your name.
You looked at me through ash and haze,
I whispered, “Hello, I’m here to stay.”
You said no word. The curtains swayed,
The wind kept time with vows we gave.
Then through the dark, your trembling plea:
“Where have you been? You left me here.”
Your mind is like a radio at night,
It finds a signal, then loses the light.
But every broken word that breaks through
Still carries the deepest truth of you.
[Pre-Chorus]
Let faces fade, let years run dry,
Let names fall silent from the sky.
There is a flame no storm can sever,
What love has marked will burn forever.
[Chorus]
They said, “He’s forgotten. Don’t make him stay.
Walk out the door. Just turn away.”
But you caught my name like a falling star,
A flash of light in the dark you are.
You may not know my face or the years gone by,
But you know the ache when I’m not nearby.
Through every shadow, through every scar,
Your heart still knows me for what we are.
[Verse 2]
I asked, “Do you remember Joanna?”
Your eyes held thunder, your voice turned low.
You said, “They took her away long ago,”
And I heard the life we used to know.
Your words shook hard like a collapsing wall,
Like a world that never learned to stand tall.
But underneath the fear and the pain,
I heard you calling my name again.
Love is a bridge over black water,
Hidden in mist, but it holds us together.
Sometimes you see me, sometimes I’m gone,
Still that bridge carries your heart along.
[Chorus]
(Repeat)
[Verse 3]
The illness tangled the maps and dates,
But left one truth behind the gates.
I come to you with a piece of dawn,
A little light when the night drags on.
My name is more than a face you knew,
More than a photograph faded blue.
It is an anchor beneath the tide,
A thread that pulls you back in time.
You hear that sound and something starts,
A hidden door inside your heart.
You reach for me through the static and pain,
And love speaks clearly through you again.
[Bridge]
I watch your thoughts lose their way,
Like shattered glass beneath the day.
But even madness cannot disguise
The truth that lives behind your eyes.
“Don’t leave me.” Anger, fear, and tears,
Hands searching through the empty years.
You may forget me in every word,
But not the way my love is heard.
While even one small spark survives,
While there is breath behind your eyes,
I’ll stand beside you through the night,
Until your darkness finds the light.
[Final Chorus]
Let them say, “He’s forgotten. Let him go.”
I know the place where your true feelings glow.
You recognize me beneath the dust,
Like morning knows the dark it must.
You may not know my face or the years gone by,
But you know my soul when I’m standing nearby.
Your mind may wander, your memories bend,
But what love began will not simply end.
They said, “He’s forgotten.” I answer, “No.
He remembers love, even when words let go.”
And though your thoughts may drift like weather,
Your heart still brings us back together.
[Outro]
“Where have you been?”
“I’ve been here all along.
Inside your heart,
Inside your song.
I came back to you.
I’m staying forever.”