Only The Ones That Matter

Lyrics

She lingered in the gallery light Tracing frames with trembling hands Each moment pinned like wings in glass A secret kept the world won’t understand She turned to speak, but paused instead- Some things are louder left unsaid

We build with love, then watch it fade In corners no parade will find But those who see will always stay- They carry what we leave behind

They don’t need signs or banners high No roaring crowd to justify They show up when the noise grows flatter- Only the ones that matter

We built our trust on painted words Hung meaning on a borrowed tone They moved like stars, they spoke like saints- But left us stranded and alone The light we followed lost its shape And truth unraveled in its place

What someone writes, or says aloud Can still be hollow underneath We learned too late that flawless lines Don’t mean there’s honesty beneath

They held our dreams with practiced grace Then let them go without a trace The truth was thinner than their patter- Only the ones that matter

The room was dim, the air held still Like breath beneath a final thought The years returned in gentle waves- Not all were kind, but none were lost I saw the faces, not the days- The ones who shaped me, not their praise

Not the titles, not the noise Not the medals or the plans- But hands that held when I fell through And eyes that said, “I understand.”

Not the tales they told in bronze and stone But those who stayed when I was alone They speak the truth before I scatter- Only the ones that matter

Only the ones that matter Only the ones that matter Only the ones that matter