Verse 1

I was seven, couldn't sleep again

You'd slip through the dark without a sound

Sit down gentle on the mattress edge

And hum some old song I never found

Your voice like honey, warm and slow

I'd close my eyes and let it go

I didn't know then what that meant—

Just that the fear would finally leave

Chorus

Carol, you taught me how to stay

How to hold the broken parts and not look away

Sit with the hurt, sit with the doubt

That's what your love was all about

I'm twenty-six and I still feel it clear

That humming on the edge, you right there

You never made us feel like too much weight

Carol, you showed me what it means to be saved

Verse 2

Every small thing was a celebration

A scraped knee, a bad report card

You'd find the light in the darkest corner

When everything felt impossibly hard

You never said "you're in the way"

Never counted up the cost of days

Just held us like we were enough

Like loving us was never tough

Bridge

Now when I can't sleep, I hear you still

That melody climbing up the hill

And I understand what I couldn't then—

That was the greatest gift you could have given

Not just the song, but how you stayed

How you showed up every single day

Proof that love's not what you take

It's what you give and never take back

Chorus

Carol, you taught me how to stay

How to hold the broken parts and not look away

Sit with the hurt, sit with the doubt

That's what your love was all about

I'm twenty-six and I finally see clear

That humming on the edge, you right there

You never made us feel like too much weight

Mum, you showed me what it means to be saved