[Intro – single piano note, long reverb, breath shaking]
[whispered, barely holding on]
I don’t remember when the crying stopped sounding loud…
It just started sounding empty.
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[Verse 1 – fragile, broken tone]
[soft, trembling]
I still reach for you in my sleep,
Like my body didn’t get the news.
There’s a space beside me that won’t cool down,
No matter how long it’s been without you.
[aching]
Your name still lives in my mouth,
But I don’t say it anymore.
It hurts less to swallow the sound
Than to let it fall to the floor.
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[Pre-Chorus – breath catching]
[quiet despair]
They say time makes it easier,
But time just makes it quiet.
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[Chorus – crying while singing, voice cracking]
[breaking, raw]
I loved you more than I knew how to survive,
And now I’m still here and you’re not alive.
I don’t know what I did to deserve this pain,
Or why loving you meant losing everything.
[pleading, exhausted]
If this is life, I don’t recognize it,
If this is healing, I don’t want it.
I would give back every tomorrow
Just to hear you say my name again.
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[Post-Chorus – piano drops out, sob audible, silence stretches]
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[Verse 2 – hollow, numb grief]
[hollow, distant]
I pack up days like they’re nothing,
Just boxes of what used to be.
Your shirts still hang like they’re waiting,
Like they believe you’ll come home before me.
[quiet devastation]
I don’t cry in public anymore,
I save it for the drive.
Grief learned my schedule too,
It knows when I’m alone enough to fall apart.
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[Pre-Chorus – realization]
[near-spoken, shaking]
I don’t miss the way you died…
I miss the way you lived with me.
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[Chorus – second hit, deeper collapse]
[hoarse, barely singing]
I loved you in a world that keeps moving on,
Like you were never here at all.
Every laugh I hear feels wrong,
Every future feels too small.
[crying, honest]
They say you’d want me to be okay,
But they didn’t love you like I did.
Being strong feels like betrayal,
So I stay broken just a little bit.
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[Bridge – stripped to voice and piano]
[near-whisper, devastated]
If love is supposed to save us,
Why did it leave me alone?
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[Final Chorus – absolute emotional low]
[collapsed, sobbing through melody]
I don’t need answers anymore,
I don’t need a reason why.
I just need one more second
Where you didn’t have to die.
[soft, destroyed]
I found my home inside your heartbeat,
Now my chest doesn’t know where to rest.
If loving you was the best part of me,
Then losing you took everything else.
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[Outro – piano slows, last note hangs]
[whisper, barely audible]
If there’s anything after this…
Please be where you are.
(music fades into silence)
