Th Space You Leave

**Verse 1**
The night won’t say your name
It just hums like it knows the shape
Of every word I didn’t mean
And every silence in between

I lie awake in borrowed light
Your ghost still feels too close to fight
I hold my breath, like you might hear
Like you’re still almost here

**Pre-Chorus**
If I move, you fade
If I stay, you hurt
Every memory feels half-made
Like a promise left in the dirt

**Chorus**
Are you still with me
Or just the space you leave?
I reach for something I can’t see
But I swear it’s breathing

If I let this go
Do I disappear too?
I don’t know who I am alone
Without you

**Verse 2**
Your voice lives in the walls
Soft echoes, then nothing at all
I talk to you like you’ll respond
Like you’re only gone for now

Time drips slow down my spine
Every second asking “why?”
If love’s a place I can’t return
Why does it still burn?

**Pre-Chorus**
I keep your shape in mind
Like it’s safer than the truth
If I let the real you die
There’s nothing left to lose

**Chorus**
Are you still with me
Or just a shadow in the room?
I hold onto the air you breathe
Like it belongs to you

If I close my eyes
Do you fade from view?
Or do I wake up every night
Still reaching for you?

**Bridge (hushed, layered)**
I don’t need answers
I don’t need relief
I just need to know
You remember me

**Outro**
I stay in the quiet
Where you used to be
Not alive
Not gone
Just haunting me

---

Shoegaze, dream pop, alt post metal/post rock, ambient, soft clean vocals, low baritone/high mid range cleans, harmonies