Zaphne's Awesome World

There was a road behind the cornfields

There was a sky I couldn’t name

There was a book of simple answers

And a question like a hidden flame

Not the world they drew in sermons

Not the fences, not the plain

Just a whisper past the milk barn

Saying everything can change

Sing low, sing low

The old hymns still follow my heart

Sing low, sing low

Plain little girl walking out in the dark

I have known the quiet kitchen

I have known the sewing light

Now the city has a language

And it speaks to me all night

Sing low, sing low

The old hymns still follow my heart

Sing low, sing low

Plain little girl walking out in the dark

The barn light burns a little gold,

against the blue the dusk unfolds,

I packed the things I couldn’t leave,

and left the rest for you to grieve.

I didn’t want to break your heart,

I just wanted to see how far

the sky went past the fence line’s end—

I had to go, I had to bend.

Barn light, blue light,

fading in my rearview now,

I’m sorry for the quiet fight,

I’m sorry that I don’t know how

to stay soft and still stay true,

so I’m carrying the barn light

somewhere new.

The gravel road don’t hold a grudge,

it just lets go, don’t make me judge

myself for wanting something more

than what was waiting at that door.

Barn light, blue light,

fading in my rearview now,

I’m sorry for the quiet fight,

I’m sorry that I don’t know how

to stay soft and still stay true,

so I’m carrying the barn light

somewhere new.

I still say my prayers the old way,

even on the loudest, brightest day,

some things don’t get left behind,

they just… change color in your mind.

Barn light, blue light,

I carry you in everything I do,

I’m sorry for the quiet fight,

but I think you’d understand it too—

I didn’t leave you, not really true,

I just took the barn light

somewhere new.

somewhere new… somewhere new…

(barn light… blue light… gone.)

Limestone still remembers rain

that stopped falling years ago —

a dead river talking in her sleep,

saying low, love, low.

I got a borrowed face and a bootleg name

and a signal I can’t sell,

walking Congress like a rumor

nobody’s got the heart to tell.

And the drones come out at dusk

the way the bats used to —

same black arithmetic,

different hunger. Same blue.

So meet me under the bridge, 3 A.M.,

where the neon runs off the stone.

I’m not asking you to save anything —

just don’t make me hold it alone.

The city’s got a heartbeat,

somebody built it wrong.

Put your hand right here on the wiring, baby,

and hum me the missing song.

There’s a girl selling weather on Sixth Street,

says she’ll sell you a spring you’ll believe.

I bought a Tuesday in April once —

cried the whole way home, and I don’t grieve.

Every ghost down here wears chrome now,

every honky-tonk hums in machine.

I keep a green room in the back of my skull

and nobody’s paved it clean.

So meet me under the bridge, 3 A.M.,

where the neon runs off the stone.

I’m not asking you to save anything —

just don’t make me hold it alone.

The city’s got a heartbeat,

somebody built it wrong.

Put your hand right here on the wiring, baby,

and hum me the missing song.

Low, love, low —

the water’s coming back someday.

And I’d like to be a body in it,

not a signal, not a name, not a way in.

Low, love, low.

Let’s be the thing they can’t relay.

So meet me under the bridge, 3 A.M.,

where the neon runs off the stone.

I’m not asking you to save anything —

just don’t make me hold it alone.

The city’s got a heartbeat,

somebody built it wrong.

Put your hand right here on the wiring, baby,

and hum me the missing song.

I’m sending my voice through the neon dust

Lines tracing stars while the steel cuts through

A lone silhouette under cyber skies

I’m pouring every golden note into you

The desert wind is carrying my song

The endless night is humming right along

Me singing to the cosmos under the stars

Let the galaxies echo from this heart of ours

Amazing life, spinning round and round

Every single heartbeat is a sacred sound

Open and free with that West Texas twang

I’m the verse where all the stardust angels sang

(sing now… up to the stars… echo me…)

(Ad-libs: “hear it baby… right there… let the night sing…”)

Twangy riffs halo around my breath

Holographic horizons, I glow against the depth

Every note I trace, constellations agree

This beautiful sky was made for my melody

The stars are leaning just to catch my tune

I’m the one who stains the dark with moon

Me singing to the cosmos under the stars

Feel the universe glowing from this heart of ours

Amazing life, spinning round and round

Euphoric, hypnotic, wrapped in cosmic sound

In the hush of this infinite night

Every whispered lyric lifts in light

Life is wonder as I’m glowing like this

The cosmos answers back in every trembling kiss

(sing to the stars… sing, my heart…)

Yeah… our world is stupidly, ridiculously, amazingly awesome…

Let’s go!

Golden hour kisses every mountain peak

Ocean waves are dancing like they know the beat

Forests whisper secrets only stars can hear

Every single sunrise feels like crystal-clear

Cities light up like a million tiny suns

Laughing faces glowing when the day is done

From frozen tundras to the desert’s fiery kiss

This planet’s throwing parties and we’re all on the list!

Feel that bassline shaking through your chest

This is living — nothing less!

Our world is awesome — say it louder!

Spinning through the cosmos like a cosmic powder

Colors exploding, hearts in overdrive

We’re alive, we’re alive, we’re so alive!

Nights echo thunder, lights cutting the sky

We’re dancing on the edge and we’re flying high

Awesome world — we’re never coming down

This blue marble’s got the crown!

Tiny hands holding bigger hands so tight

Kindness blooming in the dead of night

Rockets kissing stars while we scroll our feeds

Every single heartbeat planting brand-new seeds

Wolves howling love songs to the silver moon

Butterflies painting every afternoon

Different faces, different stories, same flame

Humanity’s a masterpiece and we’re all to blame!

Turn it up — let the whole universe hear

We’re the spark that makes the darkness disappear!

Our world is awesome — scream it louder!

Spinning through the cosmos like a cosmic powder

Colors exploding, hearts in overdrive

We’re alive, we’re alive, we’re so alive!

Nightcore thunder, lights cutting the sky

We’re dancing on the edge and we’re flying high

Awesome world — we’re never coming down

This blue marble’s got the crown!

When the night gets heavy and the doubts get loud

Close your eyes and feel the planet spinning proud

We’re stardust wearing sneakers on the ground

In this awesome world… we’re home.

Our world is awesome — louder than before!

Every single second we’re asking for more

Sky full of diamonds, ocean full of light

We’re the reason it all feels so right!

Humancore— hearts ignite and burn

For every leaf that turns and every lesson learned

Awesome world — forever and a day

We’re the ones who get to stay!

Awesome… awesome…

Our world… our world…

…is stupidly, ridiculously, amazingly… awesome.