Three Days Without a Dream

[Verse 1]
Third night on the ceiling
Tracing cracks like constellations I don't know
Phone face down beside me
Your last message feels like years ago
Streetlamp leaks through curtains
Drawing shadows under tired eyes
Coffee cups like soldiers
Lined up in surrender by my side
[Chorus]
Three days without a dream
Just the echo of what used to be
Every hour keeps replaying
Every fight
Every "stay"
Three days without a dream
But your voice still stitches through the seams
I close my eyes
But all I see
Is you
And the space beside me
[Verse 2]
Clock hands drag in circles
Red numbers burn into my brain
Neighbors slam their door again
Even their footsteps say your name
I bargain with the darkness
"If I sleep
Will you be gone?"
Or worse
Will you be perfect
And I'll wake up and you're still gone
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] I count
One for every promise
Two for every lie
Three for all the nights
You watched me cry
Then turned the light
Back on
Back on
[building harmony] Now it's just me
And the hum of everything I'm not
[Chorus]

Sparse indie ballad with intimate female vocals, soft fingerpicked acoustic guitar, and a warm but distant piano shadowing the melody. First verse is close-mic’d, almost confessional; chorus blooms with airy pads and a subtle backing vocal halo. Light organic percussion enters second chorus to lift the emotion, then everything strips back to just voice and guitar on the outro line., sad, female vocals