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[VERSE 1]
Memories of shadows more than faces
Footsteps running through the dark
You were breathing hard beside me
Trying not to fall apart
I didn’t know the danger
Didn’t know what we had fled
Only felt your hands around me
And the fear you never said

[PRE-CHORUS]
And the night kept getting louder
But I stayed quiet all the same
Guess I learned before I knew it
How to live without a name

[CHORUS]
So the strings cry for me
Soft and low, like they know what I can’t say
Every note a memory
Of a life that slipped away
I don’t remember reasons
Only hunger, only rain
You hurt for me, long before I knew
the hurt yet to come

[VERSE 2]
You tried to tell me something gentle
But your voice was shaking too
I just stared at all the strangers
Wondering what you wanted me to do
And the door closed like a heartbeat
And the world turned without sound
Funny how the smallest moments
Are the ones that pull you down

[PRE-CHORUS]
And the years stretched long and heavy
But I stayed quiet through it all
Guess I learned before I meant to
How to brace before the fall

[CHORUS]
So the strings cry for me
Soft and low, like they know what I can’t say
Every note a memory
Of a life that slipped away
I don’t remember reasons
Only hunger, only rain
You hurt for me, long before I knew
the hurt yet to come

[BRIDGE]
If I ever had a childhood
It was carried in your arms
Lost between the things you couldn’t tell me
And the things that meant me harm
And I still feel that quiet promise
In a voice I can’t recall—
Just a warmth that held me steady
On the night you lost it all

[FINAL CHORUS]
So the strings cry for me
’Cause I never learned to weep
Every note a little echo
Of the boy you tried to keep
I don’t remember reasons
Only leaving, only blame
You hurt for me, long before I knew
the hurt I’d grow to claim