Does the Love Story End

[Intro]
Some names are written in pencil
Some stay beneath the skin

[Verse 1]
You found me counting winter mornings
With your coat across my chair
You held the door through all my talking
Like there was time enough to spare
You taught my hands to unclench slowly
Left the kettle by the stove
I thought a heart could learn its measure
By the kindness that it knows

[Pre-Chorus]
Then another came like summer
With a key to every room
I mistook the rush for promise
And the promise for a truth

[Chorus]
Does the love story ever end?
Or does it change its face again?
One love mends, one love enthralls
One takes the pieces, one takes it all
I’ve been held, I’ve been undone
I’ve asked the dark what I’ve become
If every ending turns a page
Does love grow quiet, or just change?

[Verse 2]
You could make a crowded table
Feel like it was built for two
Then you learned which words would move me
And kept each one to use
I gave you every second chance
Till none were left to spend
Some goodbyes arrive as breathing
After begging has to end

[Pre-Chorus]
Now I check the locks more gently
Now I trust the pause I feel
Not every ache is asking for you
Not every wound is meant to heal

[Chorus]
Does the love story ever end?
Or does it change its face again?
One love mends, one love enthralls
One takes the pieces, one takes it all
I’ve been held, I’ve been undone
I’ve asked the dark what I’ve become
If every ending turns a page
Does love grow quiet, or just change?

[Bridge]
Maybe love is not one answer
Maybe it is many rooms
Some with sunlight on the table
Some we leave before they bloom
I can miss you without returning
I can grieve what wasn’t true
I can keep the parts that taught me
And still make a life that’s new

[Final Chorus]
Does the love story ever end?
Or do we learn to begin again?
One love mends, one love enthralls
One takes the pieces, one breaks the walls
I’ve been held, I’ve been undone
But I am more than what I’ve become
If every ending turns a page
I’ll write the next one at my pace

[Outro]
Does the story end?
I don’t know yet
But I am here
And I am not finished