Someone Once Gave Me

Verse 1

Someone once gave me a melody

Wrapped in a borrowed afternoon

Thin December light on borrowed thread

I hummed it home before the moon

(Someone once gave me)

(A melody)

Pre-Chorus

Now I carry it like a stone in my coat

Warm where it sits against my chest

Every time I think I've let it go

It surfaces again at rest

Chorus

A tune I never asked for

A line I never wrote

Someone once gave me a melody

And I still hum it note for note

(Note for note)

(Still hum it)

Verse 2

I pressed it to my ear like a shell

Hoping the ocean would speak back

But all I got was my own heartbeat

And the ache of what I lack

I taught it to my younger self

She sang it in the kitchen light

Now it follows me through crowded rooms

A quiet ghost that hums at night

(A quiet ghost)

(Hums at night)

Pre-Chorus

How strange to own a thing so thin

That weighs so much against my bones

I never wrote the words to it

But somehow I know every tone

Chorus

A tune I never asked for

A line I never wrote

Someone once gave me a melody

And I still hum it note for note

(Note for note)

(Still hum it)

Bridge

If I ever find that someone

I'd give the tune right back

But my hands have learned its shape by now

There's no unfilling what I lack

(No unfilling)

(What I lack)

Chorus

A tune I never asked for

A line I never wrote

Someone once gave me a melody

And I still hum it note for note

(Note for note)

(Still hum it)

(Someone once gave me)