Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Inspired by 'Colorado Moonshine' by Valerie Bhat
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You talk about the nights like they’re teachers
And the dark like it knows your name
You wear the moon like a second heartbeat
Like daylight’s just a phase

I hear the roads in the way you’re singing
Hear the glass ring in your rhyme
But I wake up when the mountains settle
And I need you in the light

You can keep your Colorado moonshine
And the hours that slip away
I’m not scared of the way you’re living
I just don’t want to live that way

If you’re asking me to be yours
I need you clear-eyed, not half-gone
I don’t need the night to love you
I need you here when the morning comes

You say the sun’s just noise and distance
Too many days, too much heat
But I’ve been counting those same long summers
As reasons not to leave

I don’t need peaks to prove I’m standing
Or fire to feel alive
I learned my faith in quiet kitchens
And steady, sober skies

You can keep your Colorado moonshine
And the blue flame in your hand
I don’t judge the way you burn through evenings
I just need a gentler plan

If you want me walking with you
I can’t follow where you roam
I don’t need the dark to trust you
I need you wanting to come home

I’m not trying to change your nature
Or sand the edges down
I just don’t want you to disappear
Every time the sun goes down

Love shouldn’t feel like waiting
Or listening for your step
I don’t want a song about you
I want you here instead

You can keep your Colorado moonshine
If that’s the truth you choose
But if you want a hand to hold you
I need you choosing me too

I’ll meet you halfway in the evening
I’ll stay up now and then
But I can’t love a moving shadow
I need a man who comes back in

So sing your nights into the mountains
Let the moon know you by name
Just know I’ll be where the day breaks open
If you ever want to stay