The Day You Arrived
[Verse 1] Three weeks before the world was ready, you came So small, so still, so perfect all the same Dark hair like a secret you'd carried all along Already your father's face, already headstrong He stood in that parking lot under the winter sky Too full to walk back in, too in love not to cry [Chorus] Oh Nora, we were ruined the moment we saw you Every room too quiet in the years before you You were named for a woman who left us too soon And you came like an answer, like light through the room [Verse 2] We painted the walls sage green, hung the little deer and fox Somewhere your great-grandmother smiled from the next life over You fought your way through wires and the hum of those machines Tinier than a promise, fiercer than it seems And someday when you're grown and you wonder if you mattered Know that we were never the same, we were beautifully shattered [Chorus] Oh Nora, we were ruined the moment we saw you Every room too quiet in the years before you You were named for a woman who left us too soon And you came like an answer, like light through the room