THE VOICE BETWEEN THE YEARS

Lyrics

Verse 1
I thought you hated me, that's the story I believed,
Thirteen years of silence, and I never asked to see!
I never reached for you, you never reached for me,
So we let the years decide what we were supposed to be.
Maybe life got busy, maybe we just changed,
Maybe we were both afraid of what the past might say.
I wondered where you went, if you ever thought of me,
While somewhere in the distance, life kept moving quietly.

Then your voice came through,
And something changed inside,
Like a door I thought was buried
Opened from the other side.
I heard you say my name,
And suddenly I knew,
They've only been waiting for you.

Pre-Chorus
And there was no anger,
No questions to defend,
No awkward explanations
About how it had to end.
We just started talking,
Like the years were never there,
And somehow five hours
Felt like minutes in the air.

Chorus
It was your voice between the years,
Calling through the silence,
Breaking through the distance,
Waking up what disappeared.
I thought those days were gone,
I thought we'd lost the right
To remember who we were
Before we said goodbye.
But one conversation brought it all back clear,
Thirteen years vanished
When I heard your voice between the years.

Verse 2
I remembered your smile,
The little things you used to do,
The way a simple moment
Always felt different with you.
And I remembered who I was
When I was standing next to you,
A younger version of myself
I thought I left behind too.

Maybe we weren't enemies,
Maybe we were just young,
Two people living separate lives
Before we'd learned what we'd become.
You found your road,
And I found mine somehow,
Neither one of us was waiting,
Yet here we are right now.

And I don't need to rewrite
Everything that came before,
I don't need to ask the questions
I was too afraid to ask before.
Because sometimes people leave,
Not because they stopped caring,
But because life pulls them somewhere
Neither heart was prepared for.

Pre-Chorus
And there was no bitterness,
No ghosts inside the room,
Just two old memories
Finally making peace with the truth.
We talked about the years,
We laughed about the past,
And for the first time in forever,
The silence didn't last.

Chorus
It was your voice between the years,
Calling through the silence,
Breaking through the distance,
Waking up what disappeared.
I thought those days were gone,
I thought we'd lost the right
To remember who we were
Before we said goodbye.
But one conversation brought it all back clear,
Thirteen years vanished
When I heard your voice between the years.

Post-Chorus
Maybe the years were never meant to erase us,
Maybe they only taught us how to let go.
Some people become part of your history
Without becoming strangers in your soul.
Maybe that's all this had to be,
A moment neither of us planned.
Five hours that felt like minutes,
Two old memories learning how to stand.

Verse 3
There were nights I wondered
If you ever thought of me,
If you remembered those old days
Or let them disappear.
I told myself the distance
Must have meant you had moved on,
So I buried every question
And convinced myself they were gone.
But life has a strange way
Of returning what you miss,
Sometimes through a message,
Sometimes through a voice like this.
And suddenly the years
Don't feel like years anymore,
They're just photographs and feelings
Waiting behind an unopened door.

I could have called you,
You could have called me too,
But we both kept moving forward
With lives we never knew.
We were simply two old hearts
Who grew around the pain.
Maybe that's the beauty
Of finding someone again:
You don't have to become lovers,
You don't have to pretend.
Sometimes you only need a moment
To understand what was true.

Final Bridge
So if this is only one night,
One conversation, one memory,
I'll still keep it close to me.
Because after all these years,
You gave something back to me:
A piece of who I used to be.

Tomorrow we'll return
To the separate lives we built,
But tonight I heard your voice
And the past became less cold.

Final Chorus
It was your voice between the years,
And suddenly I was there,
Back before the distance,
Back before the years.
No promises, no regrets,
Nothing we have to repair,
Just two people talking
Like the old days were still somewhere.

And maybe that's enough,
Maybe that's all this had to be,
To know you never hated me,
To know you simply lived your life,
While I was living mine,
And somewhere underneath the years,
A little piece of yesterday
Was still alive.

Outro
Thirteen years...
Five hours...
And somehow,
It felt like no time at all.

I don't know what tomorrow brings,
And I don't need to know.
I'm just grateful
I heard your voice again.

The voice between the years...
The one I never forgot.