Brick by Brick

Description: Jazz Ballad https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqbZD7eSWcHYX-mzH3rARjCuCKdXRW8kU&si=7kFGRv7WybbSHjNE Love is not always lightning. Sometimes it is labour. Sometimes it is a man on the other side of an ocean, working through the dark, laying down sacrifice after sacrifice, building something he cannot yet live in for a woman he cannot yet hold. This is a song about that kind of love — the kind that does not wait for the perfect moment but builds toward it, day by day, year by year, brick by brick. He knows seven years is a long time to ask. He carries the weight of that asking like a stone in his chest — the silence between letters, the phone put down too soon, the cold rain of distance hitting the window while he speaks her name into an empty room. But every long night is a wall going up. Every sacrifice is a foundation being set. Every mile between them is not emptiness — it is a blueprint, a promise taking shape, a home rising slowly from the ground with her name written into every beam. She is the harbour he is sailing toward. The garden he is clearing ground for. The dawn he keeps working through the darkness to reach. And he asks her to wait — not because he takes her patience for granted, but because he knows that what he is building will be worth every year it cost them. When he finally stands before her — with a ring and a roof and a life ready to receive her — all the distance will become proof. Not of what they lost, but of what they built. Brick by brick. Year by year. Love not as a feeling that came and went, but as a house that stands because a man refused to stop building, and a woman refused to stop believing. This is a song for every couple who has ever loved across distance and chosen to build rather than break. One brick at a time. Until the home is finished. Until he is finally, finally home. Brick by Brick [Verse 1] I am building a life for us, my love Brick by brick, year by year Across an ocean that has no right To stand between two hearts like ours Seven years is a long time to ask And I carry that weight like stone But every long night, every sacrifice Is a wall for the home we’ll own [Pre-Chorus] You are the harbor I’m sailing toward The garden I’m clearing ground for I keep working through the dark Just to reach your door And I know the distance aches It aches in me like a wound But I’m still moving closer Every mile leads back to you [Chorus] Wait for me, my darling I’m coming home Wait for me, my darling You are my road Nothing can bend this Nothing can break this My love keeps building Brick by brick [Verse 2] The silence between letters The lonely phone put down too soon They hit like cold rain on the window But I still speak your name into the room Every roof I’m readying Every ring I’m keeping near Is proof I’ve been making a place for you All these days, all these years [Pre-Chorus] You are the harbor I’m sailing toward The garden I’m clearing ground for I keep working through the dark Just to reach your door And I know the distance aches It aches in me like a wound But I’m still moving closer Every mile leads back to you [Chorus] Wait for me, my darling I’m coming home Wait for me, my darling You are my road Nothing can bend this Nothing can break this My love keeps building Brick by brick [Bridge] When I stand before you With a ring and a roof All this time apart Will turn to proof That we were never shaken Never washed away We were just a home Still learning how to stay [Final Chorus] Wait for me, my darling I’m coming home Wait for me, my darling You are my road Nothing can bend this Nothing can break this My love keeps building Brick by brick Wait for me, my darling I’m coming home Wait for me, my darling At last, I’m home