Lyrics

[VERSE 1]
Night settles across the fields where your shadow used to linger
And moonlight shows a path through the dark
clear and cold as winter
The noise of the daylight world falls away in a hush, a hush that feels familiar
A brittle call drifting through the quiet, seeking your return
Echoes of Daylight, harsh distant and worn
Fall into shadow
as night’s veil is born

[PRE-CHORUS]
In the still between heartbeats
I hold my breath in trembling fear

[CHORUS]
Beautiful dreamer
don’t fade from the light
I whisper my prayers to the silence
Hoping they'll find
where you're lost in the night
Beautiful dreamer, please wake from the deep
And follow the echoes that guide you to me

[VERSE 2]
You move like a memory caught between waking and something deeper
A sliver of presence slipping through the grey
before I can hold it still
All of the weight you carried through the day, the day dissolves into the ether
And I feel the memory of you in the dark
recalling your worries, your will
All of the weight you carried so long
Fades into quiet
Where you still belong

[BRIDGE]
A glimmer of you in the shadows
slipping into the veil
In the still between heartbeats
I feel my breath fail

[CHORUS]
Beautiful dreamer
don’t fade from the light
I whisper my prayers to the silence
Hoping they'll find
where you're lost in the night
Beautiful dreamer, please wake from the deep
And follow the echoes that guide you to me

[REFRAIN]
Beautiful dreamer...
Please, come back from the night
You're a beautiful dreamer

Title: The Curse of an Aching Heart
by Shad L. Carmean

[Verse 1]
How could I think your fire was real
when every spark you carried came from someone else
I embraced your warmth
like it wouldn’t burn, but only heal
and held your words like sacred truth
revealing something never felt

I wagered everything I was
and every warning crossed
Now I drift through the wreckage
counting all the lines I lost

[Pre-Chorus]
How did I fall for it
How did I let it in
How did I miss the signs
Burning under my skin

[Chorus]
I let you shape the ghost I am—
I hope it satisfies
I followed you down, inch by inch
and smothered all my light
I saw the cracks and called them stars
I played the hopeful part
And though you never stayed
I bless your name—
that is the curse of an aching heart

[Verse 2]
The futures that I built in me
you smiled at, though you knew
your borrowed shine was all you carried—
none of it came from you

I followed you blindly
as if on a dare
To paradise or ruin
I stumbled through your glare

[Bridge]
How I hate myself
Why would I think you’d stay
I mistook your borrowed light
as if it could light the way

[Final Chorus]
I let you shape the ghost I am—
I hope it satisfies
I followed you down, knowing well
you couldn’t meet my eyes
You scattered every dream I held
you marked me from the start
And though I walk away
I bless your name—
that is the curse of an aching heart

[Echo-Refrain]
I should’ve known the shine I felt
was never yours to start—
just one more trick of the light
that cursed my aching heart