Lyric

[Verse 1]

Late June, six o’clock

The studio was turning gold

Cold coffee, drying photographs

The ocean breathing down the road

My phone lit up beside the lens

“We’d love to bring you on”

They chose the sunrise from Day One

The one I kept and carried on

[Pre Chorus]

I laughed before I called a friend

The good news stayed when no one knew

And in that quiet room

The first face I saw was you

[Chorus]

I still wanted you to know

Not because I need you to save me

I can hold this joy alone

It doesn’t disappear without you

I took the long way back

To a life that finally feels like mine

And when the good news found me

I still wanted you to know

[Verse 2]

I typed “I’m fine” a hundred times

But it never once felt true

I wrote the questions full of blame

Then erased them before they reached you

I knew one sound of your voice

Could pull me back before I knew

If I missed the way you loved me

Or the girl I was with you

[Pre Chorus]

My silence wasn’t punishment

I never meant to make you wait

I needed time to hear my own voice

Without your answer in the way

[Chorus]

Now I can answer you

Not because I need you to choose me

Your yes or no can’t take away

The life that’s growing around me

That sunrise opened one door

This evening opened another

I can move ahead without hating you

And still want us to talk

[Bridge]

The sunset laid the same warm orange

Across the water and the glass

I opened our old conversation

And found the words still waiting there

“How have you been?”

“Can we talk?”

This time I knew what I could say

“I’m doing better

Sorry it took so long

I needed time

Yes, we can talk

And this time

I want to tell the truth too”

[Final Chorus]

Now I can answer you

Not from the place where you left me

I’m writing from a life I chose

With both feet underneath me

I don’t know where this will go

I only know I’m not afraid

I can miss you and keep moving

I can hear you and still stay

I learned to hold this joy alone

But I still wanted you to know

So I finally pressed send

And let the next page open

[Outro]

I set the phone face down

And took my camera to the shore

A notification sounded once

But I watched the sunset finish first

When the last light left the water

I turned back toward your name

Not the girl who waited for an answer

But the one who chose to answer anyway