Slow-Burning Flame

Verse

I left the echoes of an empty home

Drifted to a town where no one knows

Lanterns shimmered, rain laced the air

And then I saw her, like a prayer

Pre-chorus

Her face—an echo from a vanished time

Her eyes drew me back across the line

Chorus

First love flickering, a slow-burning flame

Eyes still holding every dream, every name

We wandered softly through the falling years

Her voice like music I’ve longed to hear

Verse

She spoke my name, the festival hushed

Her smile was warm, but her hands were hushed

I reached for a moment thought long dissolved

But her silver ring told the whole resolve

Pre-chorus

Her gaze turned distant, yet lingered near

A quiet confession we couldn’t speak clear

Chorus

First love flickering, a slow-burning flame

Eyes still holding every dream, every name

We wandered softly through the falling years

Her voice like music I’ve longed to hear

Bridge

At a bus stop under the argent sky

I tried to leave without goodbye

She came like a breeze, touched my trembling hand

“Live well,” she whispered, like grains of sand

Chorus

First love flickering, a slow-burning flame

Eyes still holding every dream, every name

We wandered softly through the falling years

Her voice like music I’ve longed to hear

Chorus

First love fading with the festival glow

A brief return to the world we used to know

As the bus pulled away, through the window’s frame

I smiled through sorrow, and whispered her name

Outro

Streetlights blur, the distance unfolds

Yet the warmth of her touch in my memory holds

Another town, another endless sky

I’ll carry her shadow until I die