After Hours

(hummmmm) {soft piano and layered hums} The city’s finally quiet…

Guess I can hear myself now.

Streetlights paint the window gold,

While the moon keeps watch outside.

Funny how the loudest battles

Were the ones I fought inside.

Every tear became a lesson,

Every scar became a map.

I kept searching for the answers… They were always looking back.

After the noise… After the tears… After the people Who disappeared… I’m

still standing here. (ooh-yeah)

After hours… When the world’s asleep… I finally found

The missing piece. Not in somebody else’s hands… But in the woman

I became.

After hours…

I learned my heart Was never meant to stay the same.

The night may hold my memories… But it won’t hold me.

Every chapter had a purpose,

Even the ones that made me break.

Every goodbye became a doorway

Leading me to better days.

Now I wear my story proudly,

Every high and every fall.

If tomorrow starts without you…

I’ll still have it all.

The stars don’t rush the sunrise… They know morning always comes.

So I’ll stop chasing yesterday… And let my future find me.

{orchestral swell}

After hours… I can finally breathe.

I’m not who I was

When this story began.

Every heartbreak…

Every midnight…

Every lonely road…

Led me back to me.

After hours…

The darkness made room

For the light I couldn’t see.

(ahhhhh) {gospel-inspired harmonies slowly build and fade} The night was never my

ending… It was my becoming.

Goodnight… Until the next sunrise.