Another Life, My Love

[Verse 1]
You skim my shoulder
Laugh at something small
I taste the distance
In the way you call his name
You show me pictures
Sunburnt
Smiling
Holding hands
I learn the weather
Of a world where I can’t stand
[Chorus]
In another life
My love
You’d be reaching out for me
You’d be tracing every line
On my reckless
Open heart
In another life
My love
You’d be falling into mine
Here I’m just a borrowed breath
Living in your second sky
[Verse 2]
You fix my collar
Thumb against my throat
Every quiet contact
Writes a book I’ll never show
You say you’re happy
I nod and bite my tongue
Drink down the aching
Like a secret on my lungs
[Chorus]
In another life
My love
You’d be reaching out for me
You’d be tracing every line
On my reckless
Open heart
In another life
My love
You’d be falling into mine
Here I’m just a borrowed breath
Living in your second sky
[Bridge]
If I met you first
Would you still laugh this way?
Would my jacket be
The one you steal on colder days?
I hold that question
Like your hand I’ll never hold
Butterflies burning holes
Through a future growing old
[Chorus]
In another life
My love
You’d be reaching out for me
You’d be learning every scar
On this restless
Waiting heart
In another life
My love
You’d be turning into mine
Here I’m just a quiet wish
Whispered to a different time

Dreamy alt-pop ballad with male vocals; soft electric piano and warm synth pad bed, subtle sidechain pulse. Intimate verse with close-mic vocal and light reverb; chorus widens with airy harmonies, distant guitar swells, and deep, round kick. Bridge drops to almost acapella, then blooms back with lush stacked vocals for the final hook.