Space Took Our Song

[Verse 1]
You said we needed distance
Like air in a burning room
I packed up every promise
Left quiet in your perfume
I kept all of your letters
Folded in the same old drawer
I’m grateful for the shelter
But I’m sleeping on the floor
[Pre-Chorus]
Don’t ask me to pretend this doesn’t hurt
Don’t ask me to defend the way it worked
[Chorus]
Please don’t try to change my mind
I’m thankful for the days you gave me
But I deserve a life
Deserve a life
Where I don’t have to fade to save me
Space took all the fire from us
Left me stranded in the dust
I can’t love you just to barely stay alive
I deserve to survive
[Verse 2]
(Male)
You say you’re doing better
You’re learning to breathe alone
I replay every moment
Like I could rewrite the tone
I thought that giving distance
Would somehow keep you mine
But silence grew like ivy
And wrapped around the line
[Pre-Chorus]
(Female)
Don’t tell me that we almost got it right
(Male)
We lost each other slowly
Out of sight
[Chorus]
Both:
Please don’t try to change my mind
I’m grateful for the love you gave me
But I deserve a life
Deserve a life
Where staying doesn’t break or cage me
Space turned our forever into rust
Cracked the gold beneath the trust
I can’t love you just to barely stay alive
I deserve to survive
[Bridge]
(Female)
You say “hold on”
But you let go first
We called it healing
But it felt like a curse
(Male)
I reach for you
You reach for the past
We stretched our hearts
’til they snapped
[Chorus]
Both:
Please don’t try to change my mind
I’m thankful for the time you gave me
But I deserve a life
Deserve a life
Where loving doesn’t have to erase me
Space defeated everything we were
Left an echo
Just a blur
I can’t love you if it means I lose my life
I deserve to survive
I deserve to survive

funk, Big, emotive pop-soul ballad with Adele-style drama, male and female vocals trading lines. Warm piano and organ, subtle funk guitar on the backbeat, rounded bass, and live drums that build from sparse to full. First verse intimate and close-mic, pre-chorus adds strings, chorus explodes with stacked harmonies and a gospel-leaning choir. Final chorus lifts a half-step, then drops to a vulnerable piano outro., r&b, soul, pop