[Intro — Paper Shifts, Layered Whispers, Low Guitar Drone]

[Verse 1 — Layered Group Vocal]
The first of us wore summer blue;
The next came when the windows froze.
We crossed three towns inside a crate,
Collected dust and newer dates.
New curtains rose, old lovers came;
He gave each sheet the same first name.
By the last room, thirteen lay
In one tied stack he couldn't face.

[Chorus — Layered Group Vocal]
Every year, your name
At the top of one more page.
Different ink, a different room,
The same unfinished phrase.
He signed each sheet and tied the stack:
Every year, your name.

[Verse 2 — Layered Group Vocal]
One stamp showed birds, one showed a king;
One Christmas bore a silver ring.
He wrote, “I heard you're doing well,”
Then stopped before the second line.
A woman slept beside our wall;
He never spoke of us at all.
At dawn he wrote, “This isn't fair,”
Then tore the sheet and left it there.

[Chorus — Layered Group Vocal]
Every year, your name
At the top of one more page.
Different ink, a different room,
The same unfinished phrase.
He signed each sheet and tied the stack:
Every year, your name.

[Instrumental Break — Whispered Dates Under Guitar Feedback]

[Bridge — Single Voice Growing into Group]
We heard him laugh in other rooms,
He checked our ribbon every move.
We did not prove his love survived;
We only showed he never said goodbye.

[Breakdown — Group Vocal]
We kept the ticket and the rose,
The key, the scent inside the folds.
He moved us first and opened last.
Thirteen years stacked in his hands.

[Final Chorus — Full Group Vocal]
Every year, your name
At the top of one more page.
Thirteen dates across the floor,
Each one resting in its place.
Morning light comes through the blinds:
Every year, your name.

[Outro — Whispers Narrowing to One Voice]
A blank sheet waits above the stack.
His fingers lift, then set it back.
For years, he wrote but never came.
Tonight, he says your name.