Scanning The Horizon

[Intro]
(Acoustic guitar arpeggio, clean and melancholic)

[Verse 1]
The quiet of this room has grown too loud
It’s not the echo, it’s the lack of sound
I found your jacket tangled on the chair
And stopped myself from breathing in the air
You left a map drawn on a sticky note
A lighthouse sketched beside a heavy coat
It means you’re anchored now in someone else's space
And I am scanning for your distant face

[Verse 2]
The kitchen window shows a faded moon
It used to hang there brighter in our June
I can't recall the colour of your car
Just the sound it made when you drove too far
I’m cataloging every bitter taste
From every promise that we didn’t waste
It's just the memory that doesn't bend
Stretched thin until it finally has to end

[Bridge]
We built a ship from driftwood and from thread
Now it’s just debris inside my head
I keep the photograph beneath the glass
Wishing for a current to reverse the past
I see the shoreline where you left the sand
The grain that slipped between your open hand

[Verse 3]
I’m folding clothes into a cardboard box
Putting all the shared history on blocks
You said my laughter sounded like the rain
A sudden, soaking relief from all the pain
But the drought arrived the moment you were gone
And the downpour never happened to move on
Just a damp, cold absence in the evening light
A stubborn darkness in the middle of the night

[Solo]
(Acoustic guitar solo. Melodic, utilizing simple hammer-ons and pull-offs. The notes should feel sparse and deliberate, not rushed, maintaining the pensive mood.)

[Verse 4]
The streetlights bleed their colour on the floor
Like yellow paint spilled underneath the door
I heard your name called out by a friend of mine
And felt my balance wobble on the line
Of getting better and just getting by
Of teaching all my reflexes to lie
There’s no instruction for the day you fade
Into a figure that another person made

[Outro]
I’ll find a way to navigate this sea
But you will always be the farthest shore to me.
(Fade out on sustained acoustic guitar chord.)