Where You Are

[Intro]

(ambient guitar, soft piano, slow pulse)

I still reach for you sometimes
Like you’re just not picking up

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[Verse 1]

It’s the quiet that gets me most
Not the noise, not the crowd
Just the moments in between
When everything slows down

Driving roads we used to take
Like they still lead somewhere
I catch myself turning back
Like you might still be there

There’s a weight in every corner
Of the things we used to know
Like the air still holds your voice
Even when it’s letting go

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[Pre-Chorus]

I don’t say it much
But it don’t go away

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[Chorus]

I don’t know where you are
But I feel you close to me

In the space between the words
In the silence in between

It don’t hit all at once
It just comes in waves

I carry you with me now
In a different way

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[Verse 2]

Some days I can almost breathe
Like it’s easier to stand
Then something small reminds me
You’re not reaching for my hand

It’s the things I didn’t say
And the time I thought I had
All the moments I held back
Now they echo in the past

There’s a photograph in my mind
That I don’t know how to frame
Every version of goodbye
Still don’t look the same

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[Pre-Chorus]

I hold it together
But it never really leaves

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[Chorus]

I don’t know where you are
But I feel you close to me

In the space between the words
In the silence in between

It don’t hit all at once
It just comes in waves

I carry you with me now
In a different way

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[Bridge]

(piano + light strings)

If love don’t disappear
Then neither do you

You just move somewhere
I can’t get to

And I’ve learned how to live
With what I can’t change

But it don’t mean
It don’t stay the same

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[Final Chorus]

I don’t know where you are
But I feel you close to me

In the quiet, in the dark
In the parts I cannot see

It don’t fade with time
It just learns to stay

I carry you with me now
In a different way

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[Outro]

(piano resolves, soft guitar tail)

Modern country, ambient guitar, piano, soft drums, warm bass, subtle strings, mid-slow tempo, emotional vocals