(Verse 1)
The phone rang like a warning siren
Middle of an ordinary day
One sentence split the earth beneath me
Nothing’s ever sounded quite the same
Your picture’s still lit on my dashboard
Your laugh still echoes in these halls
How can someone disappear forever
When they’re everywhere at once?
(Pre-Chorus)
No last goodbye
No final embrace
Just a thousand unanswered questions
Carved across my face
(Chorus)
When the silence screamed your name
Every heartbeat changed forever
We were reaching through the darkness
But we couldn’t hold together
Now the sky feels cold as steel
And the sunrise hurts to see
You didn’t just leave this world behind
You took a part of me
And I’ll carry what’s left
Until my own last breath
Learning how to live
With the echo of your death
(Verse 2)
Every memory wears two faces
The smile… and what I never knew
Searching every conversation
For the signs I somehow missed in you
Everybody says, “Don’t blame yourself.”
But grief don’t listen when it speaks
It rewrites every yesterday
Until you’re drowning in the “what ifs.”
(Pre-Chorus)
If love alone
Could have pulled you through
You’d still be standing here beside us
Because nobody loved you more than we do
(Chorus)
When the silence screamed your name
Every heartbeat changed forever
We were reaching through the darkness
But we couldn’t hold together
Now the sky feels cold as steel
And the sunrise hurts to see
You didn’t just leave this world behind
You took a part of me
And I’ll carry what’s left
Until my own last breath
Learning how to live
With the echo of your death
(Bridge)
Some wars leave no smoke in the air
No shattered cities, no battle cries
Just empty chairs at family dinners
And tears that nobody can hide
If somehow your soul can hear us now
Know your name still fills these rooms
We speak it with broken voices
Because love outlives the tomb
(Final Chorus)
Though the silence screamed your name
It will never steal your story
Every scar you left upon our hearts
Still shines with borrowed glory
We’ll remember who you were
Not just how your journey ends
You’ll always be our brother
You’ll always be our friend
The night can take a single life
But it cannot conquer love
We’ll carry you through every dawn
Until we meet above
(Outro)
Some wounds never disappear…
They just become the rhythm
Of the hearts that keep beating.