[Verse 1 – Male lead, female soft harmony last 2 lines]
I saw you across the field at dusk
wind in your hair like a slow-motion fire
You were laughing at something the sky just said
and the earth tilted a little, right then and there
I walked over barefoot through the tall grass
you didn’t ask where I’d been
You just handed me a glass of red wine
and the night decided to begin

[Interlude 1 – 12 sec instrumental]

[Verse 2 – Female lead, male soft harmony last 2 lines]
We built a house where the river bends
big windows to let the moonlight spill
You planted roses that climb the walls
I planted songs that climb them still
We never counted the money, never counted the years
just counted the times you said my name
Like it was the only word you ever needed
to keep the whole world tame

[Chorus – Full duet in thirds, soaring yet tender]
We never asked the night to let us go
never wanted the hurricane to fade
We just wanted more of this wild, quiet thunder
more of the storm that you and I made
Let the highways call the restless ones home
let the cold wind blow where it will
We’re still here in the eye of forever
and we always will

[Interlude 2 – 16 sec instrumental]

[Verse 3 – Trading lines, intimate]
Sometimes we drive the back roads at midnight
your hand on my knee, Harvest Moon on the radio
You sing the high part like you were born to it
and I fall in love like it’s the first time, slow
The kids are grown, the dogs are old
but when you look at me across the kitchen light
I’m twenty-five again and the world is brand-new
and everything is still all right

[Chorus – Bigger, richer harmonies]

[Interlude 3 / Guitar Solo – 24 sec instrumental]

[Bridge – Soft almost-spoken duet over solo guitar]
When the last song plays and the last light dims
when my hands forget how to hold this guitar
You’ll still be the echo inside every chord
the only north my needle ever finds in the dark

[Final Chorus – Starts huge → strips to two voices + one weeping guitar]
So keep me here in the eye of the hurricane
where the wind can’t touch what we are
We never needed freedom, never needed the calm
we only needed the nearness, the far
When the sky finally forgets how to thunder
and the moon forgets how to rise
I’ll still be caught in the beautiful storm
that lives in your eyes
Like a hurricane… that never leaves