You should have called me

Verse 1

I’ve replayed that last goodbye a thousand different ways,

Searching through the silence for something I didn’t say.

You carried all that weight behind a crooked smile,

While I stood just one phone call away the whole damn time.

You came to me for everything, every high and every low,

The nights you thought you’d lost yourself, I’d never let you go.

So tell me why this one was different, why’d you fight alone?

Why’d you leave me here still reaching for a ringing phone?

Chorus

You should’ve called me.

I would’ve come no matter where you’d been.

I’d have sat beside your darkness

Until you found your light again.

I’d have carried every burden,

Helped you fight what you couldn’t see.

Now all I’ve got are empty echoes…

And the words, “You should’ve called me.”

Verse 2

I’m angry at the silence, and I’m angry at the pain,

Angry that those demons learned to whisper in your name.

But underneath that anger is a heart that only breaks,

Knowing love was waiting if you’d only let it stay.

I hope wherever heaven meets the pieces left behind,

You’ve finally found the peace addiction couldn’t find.

I pray you’re free from every shadow that stole your yesterdays,

And somehow you can hear the words I never got to say.

Bridge

You were never just your battles.

You were laughter, scars, and soul.

The brother that life gave me,

A story I’ll always hold.

You left more than broken hearts—

You left lessons I still live.

To love without conditions…

To forgive what I can’t forgive.

Final Chorus

I still call your name

When the night gets hard to face.

Some days it’s tears, some days it’s laughter,

Some days I still expect your face.

I’ll carry every memory,

Every mile we walked together.

Your story didn’t end our friendship;

It just changed it into forever.

Outro

So rest now, my brother.

Your fight is finally through.

I’ll keep living for the both of us,

Trying to be half the friend you were, too.

I’ll carry your name,

I’ll carry your lessons,

I’ll carry your heart inside of mine.

And until the day we meet again…

I hope you know—

I never stopped loving you.