[Intro]
Yeah…
Some souls watch from the other side…
Before the first breath… before the first cry…
Sophia McKenzie…
A story that almost touched the sky
[Verse 1]
There was a dream in a quiet little plan
A daughter in the future of a woman and a man
Her name already written in the corners of their mind
Sophia McKenzie — like a star they’d someday find
Little pink shoes in a drawer that didn’t close
A laugh in the wind nobody really knows
Two sons came first like chapters in a book
But somewhere in the heavens, Sophia quietly looked
She watched the days pass, watched the love fade slow
Hearts once together started letting go
Fights in the kitchen, silence in the hall
She saw the cracks forming in the family wall
[Hook / Chorus]
Sophia McKenzie… dancing in the light
A daughter in the dream but never in the night
She whispered to the stars, “I think I’ll stay above,”
Cause a home built on shadows ain’t the place for love
Sophia McKenzie… spirit in the breeze
Never walked the earth, never skinned her knees
But somewhere in forever where the quiet angels roam
She chose not to come… cause heaven was her home
[Verse 2]
She could’ve been laughter running through the yard
Braids in her hair, dreams shining hard
Her brothers might’ve carried her on shoulders so high
But the storm in the house made the angels sigh
Papers got signed, rings fell apart
Two people once together now living separate hearts
And Sophia in the silence of the heavenly gate
Said, “Maybe this world just wasn’t my fate.”
She wasn’t a tragedy, she wasn’t a loss
Just a soul reading life like it’s lines in a cross
Sometimes not coming is the bravest decision
A quiet little spirit with a powerful vision
[Hook / Chorus]
Sophia McKenzie… dancing in the light
A daughter in the dream but never in the night
She whispered to the stars, “I think I’ll stay above,”
Cause a home built on shadows ain’t the place for love
Sophia McKenzie… spirit in the breeze
Never walked the earth, never skinned her knees
But somewhere in forever where the quiet angels roam
She chose not to come… cause heaven was her home
[Verse 3]
Maybe in another time, another life line
Where the love stayed strong and the sun still shines
She’ll step through the door with a sparkle in her eye
A little voice laughing under open skies
But in this timeline she stayed with the stars
Watching from a distance past the moon and Mars
Two brothers grew up in a world that moved fast
And Sophia McKenzie stayed a whisper in the past
[Outro]
Not every child arrives in the land of the living
Some just guide us with the silence they’re giving…
Sophia McKenzie…
The daughter who loved them enough
Not to come