Prompt:

**Beneath the Forest Moon** **[Verse 1]** Beneath a pale forest moon, where the pine trees whisper low, I’m sitting by a dying fire, watching sparks begin to go. There’s a bottle in my right hand, and your memory in my left, I take another pull of bourbon like it might ease what’s left. **[Pre-Chorus]** But every shadow wears your face, every wind calls out your name, I came here just to lose you, but the night knows why I came. **[Chorus]** So I drink beneath the forest moon, while the fire burns down slow, trying to drown the ghost of you in every drop I pour. But the whiskey only warms my lips, it never warms my soul, and no matter how far I run, your memory follows home. **[Verse 2]** There’s an old coat on the back of a chair, still smelling faintly like your skin, I know I should have left it behind, but I keep letting you back in. The crickets sing their lonely song, the river rolls below, and somewhere in the darkness I swear I hear you say hello. **[Pre-Chorus]** Maybe some wounds don't disappear, maybe some fires never die, maybe loving you was the reason I still can't say goodbye. **[Chorus]** So I drink beneath the forest moon, while the fire burns down slow, trying to drown the ghost of you in every drop I pour. But the whiskey only warms my lips, it never warms my soul, and no matter how far I run, your memory follows home. **[Bridge]** If I could trade these midnight stars for one more night with you, I'd give up every lonely road, every dawn I've stumbled through. But the morning always finds me, and the bottle always empties, and the heart remembers everything the hands are trying to forget. **[Final Chorus]** So I drink beneath the forest moon, with the ashes glowing red, to the words we never finished, to the things we never said. And the bourbon burns like fire, but it can't erase the truth— I didn't come out here for peace, I came out here for you. **[Outro]** Beneath a pale forest moon, I watch the last flame fade... Some ghosts don't need a grave, they