The Echo Between Us

A house of memories you tiptoe through A name you whisper like a prayer you never knew You missed her footsteps growing wild and free Lost in the grind chasing what you thought you had to be She colored outside lines you kept your whole life straight You lived by the rules she lived by the open gate You carried old values like a medal on your chest She carried new fires burning paths to claim her own way And every time your worlds collided sparks would fly Two distant storms arguing with the same sky But you felt her slipping further every year A quiet ache that grew sharper with fear You kept reaching out with hands that shook Hoping she'd see the love you buried in the book Yeah you lost her in the margins of a life too loud In the noise of the news and the weight of your own pride But you kept a light burning in the window frame A hope she'd return calling out your name And even when she drifted far from view You loved her steady through the endless chaos She grew into someone you struggled to understand Her compass pointed places you never planned She fought for a world you didn't trust or see Held truths you thought were wild she called them free But behind her fire there was hurt she wouldn't say Wishing you'd shown up when she was young And behind your silence lived a man full of fear Wishing he'd been better wishing he'd been near You stood on opposite sides of a changing age Two hearts stumbling through the turning of a page But time whispered truths you both had ignored Love doesn't break it only gets stored Yeah you lost her in the margins of a life too loud In the noise of the news and the weight of your own pride But you kept a light burning in the window frame A hope she'd return calling out your name And even when she drifted far from view You loved her steady through the endless chaos You said the words you should've said way back then Trying to rewrite what had calcified in time And somewhere between apology and grace You both saw your own heart in the other's face No you can't change the hours you let slip by But you can hold her now as the years roll by You found a rhythm where two worlds can mend A father reborn a daughter regained Yeah you lost her in the margins of a life too loud In the noise of the news and the weight of your own pride But you kept a light burning in the window frame A hope she'd return calling out your name And even when she drifted far from view You loved her steady through the endless chaos You once feared the gap too wide to cross But no longer