[Intro — low sub swell, distant synth pulse]
I didn’t bury you.
I learned how to walk with you.
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[Verse 1 — restrained, intimate]
Streetlights hum like they remember,
Every name I never say.
I don’t flinch when it gets quiet—
That’s where you’ve been staying.
I don’t reach for what I lost now,
I don’t chase the shape you were.
I let the night lean on my shoulders,
Let the weight feel earned.
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[Pre-Chorus — minimal lift]
I stopped asking why it happened.
I started asking how I stand.
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[Chorus — simple, devastating, danceable]
We carry it still,
Through the bass and the cold.
Every step says “keep going,”
Every heartbeat knows.
I don’t need closure,
I don’t need grace—
I just move with the ghost
That won’t leave my space.
We carry it still.
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[Verse 2 — colder imagery]
Rooms change, but the echo doesn’t,
Time moves wrong inside my chest.
I smile when I’m supposed to,
Let the silence do the rest.
I don’t talk about the fracture,
I don’t frame it like a wound.
Some losses don’t bleed loudly—
They just hum.
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[Pre-Chorus — half-drop]
If healing means forgetting,
I’ll stay unfinished.
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[Chorus — fuller, layered restraint]
We carry it still,
In the flicker of sound.
I dance so my body
Doesn’t lay down.
I don’t call it survival,
I don’t call it strength—
I just breathe through the moment
That never left.
We carry it still.
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[Bridge — stripped, confessional]
(spoken, close-mic)
They said time would take it away.
Time just taught it where to sit.
(sub-bass returns, slow pulse)
[Bridge — sung, low]
I’m not broken.
I’m aligned.
This is what it means
To stay alive.
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[Final Chorus — quiet authority]
We carry it still,
Past the point of repair.
Not because we want to—
Because it’s there.
I don’t need a reason,
I don’t need release—
I keep moving forward
With the dead part of me.
We carry it still.
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[Outro — instruments recede, cold clarity]
This isn’t letting go.
This is learning the weight.
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