Phase or Person

Verse 1
I saw your name and didn’t click
Didn’t wanna see what I might miss
But curiosity always wins
So I let the pictures sink me in

You look the same, just different lives
Different people by your side
And I’m not anywhere in sight
Like I never crossed your mind

Pre-Chorus
We used to talk like every day
Now I don’t know what I’d even say

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Chorus
Am I a phase or a person?
Did I matter or just happen?
Was I something you outgrew
Like a version you passed through?
Do you ever say my name
Or did it fade without a trace?
I can’t tell what I was worth then
Am I a phase or a person?

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Verse 2
I still remember what you’d say
The little things, your middle name
The way you laughed, the way you moved
Like it’s all still stuck in view

But I wonder if for you
It all just blurred into the blue
Like a summer that went fast
And wasn’t meant to last

Pre-Chorus
I hold it like it’s everything
You hold it like it’s barely anything

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Chorus
Am I a phase or a person?
Did I linger or just lessen?
Was I real or just a time
You don’t think about at night?
Do I live in any part
Of the corners of your heart?
Or did I disappear for certain?
Am I a phase or a person?

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Bridge (quiet, almost numb)
If I vanished from your phone
Would it feel like losing someone?
Or just clearing up some space
Like I never had a place?

I replay it in my head
Every word and every step
Like if I remember enough
It won’t mean I wasn’t enough

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Breakdown (soft)
Maybe I just stay too long
In moments that are already gone

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Final Chorus (more desperate, then softens)
Am I a phase or a person?
Or just someone you were certain
Wouldn’t stay or wouldn’t last
Just another almost past?
I’m still here feeling everything
You’re somewhere not remembering
And I don’t know what’s worse then—
Being gone or being uncertain

Am I a phase…
or a person?

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Outro (very quiet)
If I forget you too
Do I disappear… or do you?

dark indie / alternative ballad with a haunting, minimalist build—more stripped and eerie