[Intro: 12 bars, soft acoustic guitar, distant fiddle texture] [Verse 1: female vocal, intimate, sparse instrumentation] Stone pressed close around our breath Every step a borrowed sound Shadows stitched into our silence No sky — only stone around We learned patience like a language Spoke in glances, never loud Dreamed of air we’d never tasted Dreamed of standing unbowed [Pre-Chorus 1: male vocal enters softly, light harmony] Step by step through watching darkness Hearts held steady, moving slow If the night refused to free us We would find a way to go [Chorus 1: full duet, gentle lift] Now we’re standing under open skies Air so wide it feels unreal Laughing like the world’s unsteady Laughing just to prove it’s real No more stone above our breathing No more dark that never ends Just the road and just each other And the sky that slowly bends [Interlude: 16 bars, expressive fiddle solo, emotional release] [Verse 2: male vocal lead, stronger pulse] Every turning held a warning Every silence held its teeth We walked paths the dark kept swallowing Lost beneath our careful feet But your hand found mine in shadow Steady where the fear would climb If escape was just a whisper Still we followed every sign [Pre-Chorus 2: duet harmony building] Then the dark grew thin behind us Then the air began to change Still we walked in breathless silence Freedom felt too vast, too strange [Chorus 2: fuller instrumentation, warm lift] Now we’re standing under open skies Light spilling through our bones Laughing like the world’s uncertain Like we’ve never stood alone No more echoes chasing footsteps No more paths that twist and bind Only wind and waking daylight Only distance left behind [Bridge: soft drop in instrumentation, intimate voices] Do you feel how wide the silence is? Do you feel the air move free? Nothing pressing in around us Nothing telling us to be Let the shadows keep their kingdom Let the tunnels fade from sight We are more than where we came from (shared breath… then quiet wild laughter) We are walking into light [Climax: soaring fiddle, full harmony] We are walking under open skies Hearts unburdened, voices clear Every mile a living promise Every step — we made it here Stone behind and sky before us Breath and light where dark had been We are more than what once held us We are free beneath our skin [Outro: soft duet, fading fiddle, gentle resolution] If the shadows call behind us Let them fade where they belong We were never meant for silence We were meant for sky… We were meant for song… Together. [Fade out, sustained fiddle note]