THROUGH THE CLOUDS

I was learning how to be a person,

trying on nights like borrowed clothes.

He took my fear like it was nothing,

turned the lock, he left it open.

He made the ordinary holy,

coffee, streets, and Sunday air.

Suddenly love was not a question,

love was just... him being there.

When my thoughts got wild, he'd slow the room,

one touch and I could breathe again.

He taught my heart a simple truth:

it can open, it can open.

The light of my life has shot past me through the clouds,

still warming my skin when the world shuts down.

To illuminate the future, when I can't see far,

from your new home within the stars.

And I'm not lost, I'm just moving now,

I carry that love like a beat in the crowd.

The light of my life has shot past me through the clouds,

and it leads me... it leads me...

...to you.

Right to you.

Now I'm here with your hands on my shoulders,

neon leaning on your face.

You don't ask me to be fearless,

you just give my fear some space.

And I used to think "forever" meant

one name, one door, one flame,

but you're proof the heart can learn again

without turning into shame.

So we move like we mean it,

slow fast, sweet heat, no disguise,

and the past doesn't vanish,

it just stops chasing my life.

I won't pretend I never break,

I won't pretend I never doubt.

But you hold me like you understand,

and I come back out, I come back out.

The light of my life has shot past me through the clouds,

still warming my skin when the world shuts down.

To illuminate the future, when I can't see far,

from your new home within the stars.

And I'm not lost, I'm just moving now,

I carry that love like a beat in the crowd.

The light of my life has shot past me through the clouds,

and it leads me... it leads me...

...to you.

Right to you.

I used to think moving on meant leaving him,

like love was one room and I walked out.

But love is a door that keeps opening,

love is a song that keeps finding a mouth.

So if he can see this, I know he'd smile,

no bitterness, no shadowed doubt.

He'd say, "Good. Let it hold you.

Let it lift you. Don't shut it down."

And you, you don't replace what was written,

you don't erase what was true,

you're the next page with clean white margins,

and I'm finally reading it through.

The light of my life has shot past me through the clouds,

and it's here in the way we're spinning now.

To illuminate the future, when I can't see far,

from your new home within the stars.

And I'm not lost, I'm just moving now,

I carry that love like a beat in the crowd.

The light of my life has shot past me through the clouds,

and it leads me... it leads me...

And if I'm choosing my "now",

James it's you.