Acoustic guitar · 90 BPM · 3/4
A gently rocking guitar accompaniment in 3/4, with fingerpicked verses and lightly brushed chorus chords.
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HOPEFUL ACOUSTIC GUITAR BALLAD / LULLABY · QUIET WONDER · GROWING TOGETHER
Before Your First Words
Here you are, here we are: a new baby, a new parent, and more love than there are words for yet. Before Your First Words welcomes the child with quiet wonder while making room for the parent's questions, hopes, and unfinished dreams. No one has to know the whole future to begin caring for each other. The promise is to keep learning, to listen as the child becomes their own person, and to leave room for both lives to grow.
Love Before Certainty
Lead with the acoustic guitar ballad at 90 BPM in 3/4: intimate fingerpicked verses, lightly brushed chorus chords, a fuller final chorus, and a sparse, gentle ending. The guitar-only backing keeps the lilting pulse clear while leaving space for the singer, without piano, pads or percussion. Sing to the child with affection, curiosity, and a small smile: intimate does not have to mean sad. Let uncertainty remain honest, but make love and the joy of getting to know the baby the emotional center.
Lyrics
Verse 1
They placed you here against my chest And helped me bring the blanket round I’d thought of things that I might say But nothing came when I looked down Your fingers opened on my skin The room went on beyond the bed Someone asked me how I felt I watched you breathing instead
Pre-chorus
I had folded all the little clothes Read the pages, packed the bag Now I’m getting to know you And the parent I’ve become
Chorus
Here you are, here we are With the morning coming through I have so much love already And so much to learn with you You can sleep against my shoulder While I learn to hold you close I don’t know the world you’ll grow in For now, I’ll keep the lamplight low
Verse 2
There are headlines on my phone I turn it over by the chair Then I wonder if that helps Or if I should be more prepared What will school be like for you? Will there be somewhere you can play? Will I know when you need holding And when to let you walk away?
Pre-chorus · variation
There are questions I can’t settle With another hour awake I can ask someone to help me When the morning starts to break
Chorus · repeat
Here you are, here we are With the morning coming through I have so much love already And so much to learn with you You can sleep against my shoulder While I learn to hold you close I don’t know the world you’ll grow in For now, I’ll keep the lamplight low
Verse 3
There’s a picture of me younger Someone left beside the flowers I can almost hear the plans I was making at that age Some are waiting where I left them Some don’t fit the way they did I am looking for a place For those things beside your crib
Bridge
You won’t owe me all the answers To the things I couldn’t be You’ll have words I didn’t teach you You’ll see things I couldn’t see If you come to me with something That I struggle to understand Let me learn to listen longer Before I tell you who you are
Final chorus
Here you are, here we are The morning light comes softly through I have so much love already And a life to learn with you You can still sleep against my shoulder We don’t have to hurry yet I don’t know who we’ll become We have time we haven’t met
Outro
You close your eyes, I close mine The world can wait a while I’ll leave a little room For the dreams you’ll make your own Just a little room... To become whoever you are.
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