The Love Fades From Your Eyes

[Verse 1]
I saw the love fade from your eyes
Half a heartbeat
Barely a blink
But it split our world in two
Your hand still warm in mine
Mouth saying “it’s alright”
But the room turned colder
Like it already knew
[Pre-Chorus]
You looked past my shoulder
At some future I can’t touch
I said your name so softly
You didn’t flinch
You didn’t rush
[Chorus]
I saw the love fade from your eyes
Slow as winter taking over July
Every color draining out of our sky
While you were smiling
Saying “we’re fine”
I felt the floor fall under my life
When I saw the love fade from your eyes
[Verse 2]
Coffee cup between us
Steam rose
Then disappeared
Your laugh hit all the right notes
But the harmony was fear
You traced a ring on the table
Round and round
Wearing it thin
I kept searching in your pupils
For the place I used to live in
[Pre-Chorus]
You said “we’ll always have this”
But your voice was somewhere else
Like you’d already packed the boxes
And stacked them on the shelf
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
Tell me
Was there a moment
You remember letting go?
Or did it slip out in the silence
Between the words we’d rehearsed so long?
[crescendo]
’Cause I’m still here in that second
Where everything quietly died
Frozen in the flicker
Of your leaving eyes
[Chorus]

Haunting, cinematic ballad with a slow-burn arc. Intimate piano and close-miked male vocal in the first verse, almost a whisper. Strings creep in under the pre-chorus, then swell wide on the chorus with low pads and distant toms for weight. Second verse adds subtle guitar harmonics; final chorus lifts with stacked harmonies, a mournful solo violin answering key lines, then everything drops back to bare piano and voice on the last phrase., slow, male vocals, deep, raw