[Verse 1]
Empty chair at the kitchen table
Coffee cold, I am barely able
To breathe through the static in the living room
Yesterday you were here, now it's endless gloom
Found your jacket hanging by the door
I can't take this silence anymore
[Pre-Chorus]
One second you were breathing, the next you were ghost
Now I am left holding what hurts the most
No warning, no goodbye, just a sudden tear
How do I exist when you're no longer here?
[Chorus]
The hardship of your absence is a crushing weight
Ripped from my world by a cruel hand of fate
From full of life to a hollow space
I keep searching the shadows for your face
Gone in a heartbeat, left in the dark
A sudden end that tore my soul apart
[Breakdown 1]
[Heavy slow breakdown]
NO WARNING!
JUST SILENCE!
YOU ARE GONE!
[Verse 2]
Every habit I built around your voice
Now feels like a nightmare without a choice
I reach for my phone to tell you the news
Then remember the reality I'm forced to use
The hardest part isn't that you died
It's living in the aftermath you left inside
[Chorus]
The hardship of your absence is a crushing weight
Ripped from my world by a cruel hand of fate
From full of life to a hollow space
I keep searching the shadows for your face
Gone in a heartbeat, left in the dark
A sudden end that tore my soul apart
[Breakdown 2]
[Tremolo picking into slam breakdown]
FRACTURED!
RIPPED FROM MY HANDS!
WHY WERE YOU TAKEN?!
[Bridge]
I hear your laugh in the quiet hours
A memory fading like dying flowers
From presence to absence, a total collapse
I'm trapped in the void of what used to last
[Guitar Solo]
[Melodic metalcore guitar solo leading into chaos]
[Breakdown 3]
[Ultra heavy half-time tempo breakdown, gutteral vocals]
THE HARDSHIP!
OF YOUR ABSENCE!
NEVER COMES TO AN END!
[Outro]
[Fading ambient feedback]
You were here...
Now there is nothing.