Written from the heart for someone special who carried me through dark times.

You’re The Reason (Swan)


VERSE 1

Death, you stalk with crooked footsteps,
grab each doorway by surprise,
drag our plans toward tilted cradles,
strain our hearts with burning eyes.
You rip futures from our fingers,
shake our scaffolds to the core,
drop us in a raw new chamber
where old dreams touch down no more.

PRE-CHORUS 1

Yet beyond that heavy doorway,
something brighter starts to run,
every loss throws sparks of living,
every ending feeds the sun.

CHORUS

Life keeps chasing at your heels,
turns our fractures into fields,
pulls us closer, lifts us higher,
softer light behind the fire.
You mark gateways, not the end,
just a curve where roads extend;
Life writes louder in the sky,
draws infinity through goodbye.

VERSE 2

Death, you flood our rooms with silence,
tip our chairs, unstack our days,
yet Life rushes through that rupture,
threads new color through the haze.
Family gathers, hands lock tighter,
long-lost voices share one frame,
tender candles cut the darkness,
whisper every sacred name.

PRE-CHORUS 2

Every time your shadow circles,
Life stands taller in the glow,
wraps our shoulders in a vision,
lessens every heavy blow.

CHORUS

Life keeps chasing at your heels,
turns our fractures into fields,
pulls us closer, lifts us higher,
softer light behind the fire.
You mark gateways, not the end,
just a curve where roads extend;
Life writes louder in the sky,
draws infinity through goodbye.

BRIDGE

You frame questions without answer,
yet the journey stretches wide,
worlds await beyond your threshold,
oceans roll on either side.
Through your narrow, nameless doorway,
we step forward, unconfined,
trade our clinging, numbing focus
for a far more grand design.

FINAL CHORUS / OUTRO

Life keeps rising through your wake,
fills each rupture, heals each ache,
wraps our mortal, fragile span
in an endless, living plan.
Death, you stand along the way,
yet Life crowns every day;
through that door we one day cross,
Love surrounds us, more than loss.


In Between Days

Françoise Sanders

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