Static Between Breaths

(washed-out guitars bloom slowly, low-tuned, heavy reverb)

(soft drum pulse enters like a heartbeat underwater)

(breathy vocal delay tails, barely audible)

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You’re still alive somewhere in the city

But you feel like a ghost in my lungs

I talk to the walls like they know you

Like silence might answer back once

I trace your name in the mirror

Steam fading before I can see

Missing someone who’s still breathing

Is a different kind of grief

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(bass thickens, guitars detune slightly)

Some days I float in the quiet

Some days the weight pulls me down

I keep my face calm and steady

While the room spins around

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(big Deftones-style chord swell, wide and slow)

It comes in waves, it don’t warn me

I’m fine for hours, then I break

I keep talking to you in my head

Like you’ll answer someday

I’m losing time, not the people

Years slipping through my hands

Love like this outlives the body

And I don’t know where it lands

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(drums pull back, guitars shimmer)

I hear you when the nights get longer

In every sound I didn’t choose

Conversations never ending

With a version of you I lose

I watch the seasons change without me

Months collapsing into one

Didn’t notice time was taking things

I was stuck on what’s gone

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(low harmony enters, subtle distortion)

You live inside my habits

Every road, every room

You’re not dead — just unreachable

And that’s what breaks me in two

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(guitars slightly more distorted, drums wider)

It comes in waves, it keeps pulling

I swear I’m breathing, then I’m not

I save a place for your voice

In every thought I forgot

I’m losing time instead of people

Watching days fall apart

Love like this has nowhere to go

So it stays in my heart

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(everything drops to ambient guitar + bass hum)

(vocal close, almost whispered)

If love could fade, I’d survive this

If grief had shape, I’d learn its size

But it just sleeps inside my chest

Growing heavier with time

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(low chugging guitars, slow and massive)

(kick hits like distant thunder)

(no screaming — tension through tone)

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(full mix opens, layered vocals, thick low end)

It comes in waves, I stop fighting

Let it pull me under slow

Some days I breathe, some days I vanish

Into who we used to know

I’m not mourning a goodbye

I’m mourning what still remains

Love that outlived the person

Is the deepest kind of pain

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(guitars trail off into noise and reverb)

(last vocal line echoes and degrades)

You’re not gone…

You’re just everywhere I can’t reach.