Nightingale

It wasn't born for all this dark
Not for these scars or shattered parts
A voice designed to wake the dawn
Now sings where all the light is gone

A quiet fire, a fragile sound
Still trying not to hit the ground
It never asked to bleed this way
But sings because it can't not stay

We were made for more than this
More than silence wrapped in fists

Nightingale, you're breath and flame
Built for love, now singing pain
You were made for skies wide open
Now you break where hearts stay broken

You're the light and you're the scar
The song that knows how far we are
Still you cry, still you remain
A perfect soul in a world misshaped

It remembers wind and open space
The kind of joy you can't replace
But something cracked, the sky turned still
And beauty learned to swallow will

It sings of what it used to be
Of golden skies and memory
Of love without a lock and chain
Now tangled up in breath and strain

Not for glory, not for gain
But just to feel a voice remain

Nightingale, you're breath and flame
Built for love, now singing pain
You were made for skies wide open
Now you break where hearts stay broken

You're the light and you're the scar
The song that knows how far we are
Still you cry, still you remain
A perfect soul in a world misshaped

We were carved to shine, not to survive
But here we are, still alive
This isn't how the story read
But something sings inside the dead

Nightingale, you're breath and flame
Echoing through nights of shame
You were meant for peace and flight
But still you sing into the night

You're the truth we can't explain
The voice that rises through the strain
Still you cry, still you remain
Not broken, just redefined again

Not broken
Just redefined again