COULD’VE BEEN

Intro (soft, melodic, no filler)
I see you now…
And it hits different
Didn’t think I’d feel like this again

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Verse 1 (soft singing → light rap)
I see you now, you look the same
But everything don’t feel the same
Got me thinking back again
Like what we had could’ve been

We were close but never right
Always wrong at the wrong time
Now I see it clearer too
We just didn’t make it through

I remember how it felt
When it was just us, no one else
Now it’s something in the past
Didn’t think it wouldn’t last

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Pre-Chorus (gentle build)
If things were different
Would we still be here?
Or would it end the same way
Even if it felt so real?

Did we lose it, or let it go?
Or just not know what we had back then?

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Chorus (MAIN HOOK — SIMPLE + HITS)
If only you let me in again
Maybe we could’ve been something
I don’t say it, I just think it
Every time I see you now

If only things were different then
Maybe we could’ve been something
Now it’s just a thought I live with
Every time you’re not around

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Verse 2 (more reflective)
I don’t blame you, I won’t lie
We both played our different sides
Could’ve worked if things aligned
But we ran out of time

Now it’s just a memory
Something that won’t ever be
Still I catch myself sometimes
Thinking what if you were mine

Seeing you just brings it back
All them moments that we had
Even though I let it go
There’s still things I never showed

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Bridge (soft, emotional peak)
I don’t chase it, I let it go
But that don’t mean I don’t still know
What we had was something real
Even if it didn’t heal

Sometimes I just sit and think
What it was and what it is
Two different realities
One I lost and one I live

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Chorus (stronger, emotional)
If only you let me in again
Maybe we could’ve been something
I don’t say it, I just think it
Every time I see you now

If only things were different then
Maybe we could’ve been something
Now it’s just a thought I live with
Every time you’re not around

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Outro (soft, fading, extended)
Could’ve been…
That’s all it is now

Just a thought…
That comes and goes

slow emotional, melodic rap, soft vocals, male vocal, vulnerable tone, minimal beat