I Miss Who I Thought You Were

[Verse 1]
You used to call at 3 a.m
Say you couldn’t sleep
Just drive
Coffee on your breath
That crooked grin
Saying you’d be here for life
I kept your sweater on the chair
Still smells like rain and gasoline
Guess I was holding to a ghost
To the movie in my head
Not the scene
[Chorus]
I don’t miss you
I miss who I thought you were
All the words you never said
But I swore that I had heard
I don’t miss you
I miss that stranger in my mind
The one who never let me go
The one you never were in real life
[Verse 2]
You loved the way I needed you
I loved the way you played the part
Credits rolled
The crowd went home
But I stayed sitting in the dark
You’re out there laughing in a bar
Like none of this was ever real
I’m here replaying every line
Till the fiction’s all I feel
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] Maybe I was easier to leave
Than the version you pretended you could save
I built a chapel in your name
You just saw another empty space [crescendo]
So here’s to every might-have-been
Every promise that we never really had
I’ll light a match
Let it all burn
Walk away
But still admit
[Chorus]

Cinematic slow-burn ballad: sparse piano and low strings under intimate male vocals, building from fragile murmurs to a soaring, anguished climax. Verses stay close and conversational; chorus opens with wide reverb, swelling orchestra, and subtle percussion rolls. Final chorus drops to near-acapella before a last, unresolved piano chord., raw, deep, slow, male vocals