Deborah Bright

Intro

Mm-mm, oh-oh, ah

(yeah) Deborah, Deborah

Verse

She walks in like a slow melody

Shoes scuffing on the porch of my memory

Laugh that breaks the hush, a little dangerous and kind

Maps of little scars, but she keeps a fearless mind

Coffee cup with lipstick, a song stuck in her head

She hums the parts that I forgot, finishes what I left unsaid

She bends the light around a room, turns the ordinary bright

Call her out by name, call her out, Deborah Bright

Pre-chorus

And when she moves, the air remembers how to breathe (breathe)

When she smiles, the walls forgive the ways they used to grieve (used to grieve)

Oh, she’s messy and she’s gold, both at once and on repeat (repeat)

I keep coming back to the same small miracle beneath my feet

Chorus

Deborah Bright, Deborah Bright (Deborah Bright)

Say her name and the dark gives up, yeah, she lights the night (lights the night)

Deborah Bright, Deborah Bright (oh-oh)

Turn the small things into prayer, turn the wrong things into right

Deborah Bright, Deborah Bright

Deborah Bright, Deborah Bright (na-na, uh)

Verse

She writes postcards to the future with a crooked fountain pen

Draws little rebels in the margins, makes the sore parts start to mend

Her hands are full of patched-up maps and tickets she won’t use

She’s the kind of trouble that behaves like rescue

On a weekday Tuesday she’ll cancel all the plans

Invite the neighborhood to dinner, a laugh between her hands

No halo, just a grin that could steal a saint’s disguise

I keep losing every argument to those honest eyes

Pre-chorus

And when she speaks, the world leans in and learns to tilt (tilt)

She stitches imperfect songs into a silk of guilty guilt (guilty guilt)

Oh, she’s stubborn and she’s kind, and both of them collide (collide)

I keep tracing all the reasons that I stayed alive

Chorus

Deborah Bright, Deborah Bright (Deborah Bright)

Say her name and the dark gives up, yeah, she lights the night (lights the night)

Deborah Bright, Deborah Bright (oh-oh)

Turn the small things into prayer, turn the wrong things into right

Deborah Bright, Deborah Bright

Deborah Bright, Deborah Bright (la-la, hey)

Bridge

She ain’t perfect and she’s proud, she’ll sing too loud, she’ll shout (shout)

Pulls the covers off the myths we learned to live without (without)

If love’s a crooked lighthouse, she’s the honest kind of guide (guide)

Hold me like a promise that actually survives (survives)

(ah-ah) Deborah, Deborah, say my name back to me (say it)

(ah-ah) Deborah, Deborah, keep me out where I can see

Chorus

Deborah Bright, Deborah Bright (Deborah Bright)

Say her name and the dark gives up, yeah, she lights the night (lights the night)

Deborah Bright, Deborah Bright (oh-oh)

Turn the small things into prayer, turn the wrong things into right

Deborah Bright, Deborah Bright

Deborah Bright, Deborah Bright (na-na, uh)

Outro

Mm-mm, Deborah (Deborah