[Intro]  
Snow on the satellite dish  
Static on the kitchen radio  
Coffee cooling in my hands  
While the future flickers on the window  

[Verse 1]  
You are a name I haven't spoken  
You are a shadow in the hall  
You are the laugh I hear in echoes  
Down a corridor that hasn't formed at all  

There is a crib inside my memory  
Pressed between two brittle leaves  
One is joy and one is grieving  
And they whisper different versions of me  

[Chorus]  
If I already know the ending  
Do I dare begin the song?  
If I've read every line of sorrow  
Can I still pretend I'm wrong?  
You are waiting in the silence  
In the spaces time can't bend  
Tell me, little constellation  
Do we choose you, knowing how you end?  

[Verse 2]  
I've watched the world rewrite its language  
I've seen a circle swallow years  
Every moment holds its mirror  
Every cradle holds its quiet souvenir  

Your tiny hand inside my fingers  
The hospital's fluorescent rain  
The beeping glass cathedral  
Where I learned the different colors of pain  

There is a birthday in the sunlight  
Candles trembling, wax and breath  
There is a bedside in the twilight  
And the slow, unblinking patience of death  

[Chorus]  
If I already know the ending  
Do I dare begin the song?  
If I've read every line of sorrow  
Can I still pretend I'm wrong?  
You are written on my rib cage  
In an alphabet of scars  
Tell me, little constellation  
Should I call you from the stars?  

[Bridge]  
I could close the book and walk away  
Let the pages stay untouched  
Let this house stay dim and quiet  
Let my arms forget the shape of trust  

But I have seen what time is made of  
Not a river, not a line  
Just a room with every version  
Of your eyes looking into mine  

You are playing in the garden  
You are sleeping in that bed  
You are both the word "forever"  
And the silence when it's said  

[Chorus]  
So I step into the ending  
Like it's just another door  
I will hold the weight of knowing  
And I'll still come back for more  
You are laughter in the hallway  
You are tears I won't defend  
I will choose you, little constellation  
Even knowing how you end  

[Outro]  
Snow is falling on the driveway  
Footprints where you've never been  
Still I feel you like a promise  
Pressing gently on my skin  

Time will fold around your cradle  
Round your fever, round your smile  
I will walk into your sorrow  
For the miracle of while  

In the hush between our heartbeats  
Where all possible lives reside  
I will love you in the always  
Not the after  
Not the why  
Just the tide