Lost You In The Turning

Lost you in the turning – Orpheus and Eurydice

Verse 1

We used to dance on hilltops where the daylight kissed your hair.

You laughed like every heartbeat was a secret you could share.

The rivers learned our rhythm and the branches knew your name.

Back then I thought that love was just another word for flame.

Verse 2

One morning felt off center, like the air forgot to breathe.

The meadow swallowed sunlight, something dying underneath.

I heard them whisper Eurydice like stormclouds in the rye.

The world went out of focus when I saw you fail the sky.

Pre-Chorus 1

If my song can wake the mountains, can it bend eternity.

If my voice can move the heavens, will it bring you back to me.

Chorus

I pulled you from the dark till the dark pulled back on me.

I heard your footsteps rising like a ghost that begged to be.

I turned to see your shadow and it swallowed destiny.

I lost you in the turning that was never meant to be.

Verse 3

I walked down past the guesses where the living never go.

Past temples built on rumors that the wise pretend to know.

I traded every love song for a map of Hades’ throne.

And swore into the void I would not leave you there alone.

Verse 4

The ferryman looked bored like he had seen all griefs before.

He took my shattered payment, pushed us off the mortal shore.

The river smelled like endings and like secrets left to rot.

I held my lyre tighter, every string a loaded shot.

Verse 5

In halls of ash and echo where the dead hang like a choir.

I bled my heart in music till the stone leaned in to fire.

Even Hades dropped his posture, even Persephone turned warm.

The underworld fell silent while my sorrow changed its form.

Pre-Chorus 2

If the gods can feel a heartbeat, can they feel me break in two.

If they tasted what I am losing, would they do what I would do.

Chorus

I pulled you from the dark till the dark pulled back on me.

I heard your footsteps rising like a ghost that begged to be.

I turned to see your shadow and it swallowed destiny.

I lost you in the turning that was never meant to be.

Verse 6

They said, take her to the sunlight, but do not look back behind.

Trust your footsteps, trust the promise, trust the echo in your mind.

They said, faith is walking forward when your proof is out of sight.

I said yes with holy terror, then we climbed toward the light.

Verse 7

The tunnel breathed around us like a lung that never slept.

I heard your quiet presence in the hush of what it kept.

Each footstep rang like thunder in a war against my doubt.

My name fell from your silence like a word you could not shout.

Verse 8

The exit burned like sunrise, just one heartbeat out of reach.

My spine was full of lightning and your nearness felt like speech.

I turned to see you smiling just to prove you walked with me.

The darkness snapped you backward and erased you clean and free.

Pre-Chorus 3

If I had not chased your shadow, would you now be holding on.

If I trusted what I could not see, would you still not be gone.

Chorus

I pulled you from the dark till the dark pulled back on me.

I heard your footsteps rising like a ghost that begged to be.

I turned to see your shadow and it swallowed destiny.

I lost you in the turning that was never meant to be.

Verse 9

Now I haunt the broken rooftops where the city meets the sky.

I play for empty windows and for questions that ask why.

They call me blessed and cursed in the same exhausted breath.

The fool who almost cheated the arithmetic of death.

Verse 10

The crowds all say my music makes their buried losses rise.

They do not see the flashback living permanent behind my eyes.

They cheer the way my melodies drag ghosts into the light.

They do not know I bargain with that hallway every night.

Pre-Chorus 4

If this song keeps you in orbit, is it love or is it chains.

If I learned to live without you, would I still breathe through your name.

Chorus

I pulled you from the dark till the dark pulled back on me.

I heard your footsteps rising like a ghost that begged to be.

I turned to see your shadow and it swallowed destiny.

I lost you in the turning that was never meant to be.

Verse 11

Some nights I hear you laughing in the bodies of the crowd.

In every wrong note bending, in the thunder played too loud.

You live in every tremor when the strings begin to bleed.

My grief became a garden you keep growing from my need.

Verse 12

So if you feel your own lost one standing just beyond your sight.

If you walk a narrow hallway between memory and light.

Know a fool once loved so fiercely that he broke the rules above.

And the echo you are hearing is a failed but living love.

Pre-Chorus 5

If you almost saved somebody, do you hear me in your chest.

If you lost them in a moment, do you still replay the rest.

Chorus

I pulled you from the dark till the dark pulled back on me.

I heard your footsteps rising like a ghost that begged to be.

I turned to see your shadow and it swallowed destiny.

I lost you in the turning that was never meant to be.

Verse 13

If I walked that road again now with the ending in my hands.

Would I trust the weight of silence, let love move without demands.

Or would I turn the same way, just to see your face once more.

And lose you in the turning like I always did before.

Bridge

Tell me, what is faith if not a dare against the dark.

Tell me, what is love if not a soul that leaves a mark.

Tell me, what is loss if not a song that will not end.

Tell me, are you gone or just the note I cannot bend.

Chorus

I pulled you from the dark till the dark pulled back on me.

I heard your footsteps rising like a ghost that begged to be.

I turned to see your shadow and it swallowed destiny.

I lost you in the turning that was never meant to be.

Will I ever stop returning to the place you slipped from me.

Outro

So I will keep on playing till the last light folds its wings.

If the dead can hear the living, you will know it when it rings.

Every time this chorus trembles through some half remembered plea.

I am walking that same hallway where I lost you, losing me.