No Beginning No End

[Verse 1]
You said
“This is where it starts”
On a Tuesday
In a parking lot
Coffee gone cold in your shaking hands
My name on your tongue like a promise that forgot
Slow walk back to your car
Your breath drawing clouds in the dark
You stared straight ahead
I watched your jaw
Trying not to feel the crack
The split
The mark
[Pre-Chorus]
Every word we hid between our teeth
Still cuts through me now I breathe
You turned the key
The wipers scratched
I knew right then there’s no way back
[Chorus]
No beginning
No end
Just this ache that folds and bends
Like a circle drawn in sand
Washed away by its own hand
You were almost
Almost mine
Till you slipped outside the lines
Now I’m stuck inside this bend
No beginning
No end (ohh)
[Verse 2]
We moved through the days like ghosts
Sharing plates
But not our thoughts
Your eyes on the flicker of some distant screen
My hands on the seams of a world coming apart
Friends kept asking how we were
I laughed and changed the subject
You kissed me quick
Like closing a door
Already halfway out of the frame you left
[Pre-Chorus]
All the little lies we let grow roots
Bloomed in the cracks between our truths
The silence turned from soft to loud
Till it drowned us both somehow
[Chorus]
No beginning
No end
Just this ache that folds and bends
Like a circle drawn in sand
Washed away by its own hand
You were almost
Almost mine
Till you slipped outside the lines
Now I’m stuck inside this bend
No beginning
No end
[Bridge]
[Drop – instruments fall to a low hum
Close dry vocal]
If I call your name
Will you feel it on your skin
Like a bruise you can’t remember
Where it started sinking in
If you dream my face
Will it fade before you wake
Were we ever really something
Or a story we both faked (yeah)
[Chorus]
[Full band returns
Thicker backing vocals]
No beginning
No end
Just your shadow in my chest again
Like a ring that never fits
But it’s carving in my wrist
You were almost
Almost mine
Echoed on a fraying line
I keep tracing where we went
No beginning
No end
[Outro]
(Ohh) no beginning
(Ohh) no end
Just the space where you have been
And the shape you left
My friend

folk, Art-pop / dream-pop ballad with male vocals; low, pulsing bass and soft brushed drums under a fingerpicked folk guitar. Verse one in an intimate whisper with distant reverb; chorus blooms with lush pads, stacked background harmonies, and a cinematic string swell. Tension ramps each section with toms, reverse swells, and airy vocal oohs, then everything drops to almost a cappella on the title line before the band surges back for a final, lingering refrain., dream pop, ballad, art pop