Unsaid

(Intro – piano + clean guitar, spacious)

I was sitting in a booth

At the back of the restaurant

When your smile

came walking in

I thought to myself oh yeah

It’s just like the movies

I felt the chemicals

rush in

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(Verse 1 – piano driven, soft drums enter halfway)

Then in walks behind you

A tall dark and handsome

I felt my chances

Growing thin

He leaned in to kiss you

And I had to look away

Feeling small

Compared to him

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(Verse 2 – add bass + gentle guitar swells)

I stirred my coffee slowly

Like time would wait beside me

Steam rising

Like dreams in my head

You laughed at something

I knew I could’ve said

But every perfect line

Stayed unsaid

I traced the scratches

On that worn out tabletop

Like roads that

Fade in the rain

Wondering if courage

Is something we’re born with

Or something we lose

In the pain

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(Pre-Chorus – harmony stack begins)

And I kept rehearsing

Words I’d never say

A thousand little chances

That slipped away

(Background vocals echo last phrase: “slipped away…”)

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(Chorus – full arena lift, power drums + electric guitar + layered vocals)

You were never mine to lose

Still it felt like losing

Watching from the shadows

While the world kept moving

Somewhere between maybe

And what might have been

I watched forever

Walk in with him

(Gang harmony on last line)

Walk in… with him

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(Verse 3 – pull back slightly, piano + strings pad)

Your hand found his

Like it always belonged there

Easy as breathing

Soft and sincere

I caught my reflection

In the window beside me

A stranger pretending

She didn’t care

The waitress asked softly

If I needed anything

I said just the check

And maybe the night

She smiled like she knew

That familiar ending

Where almost love

Never takes flight

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(Bridge – emotional peak, key change optional)

But maybe this moment

Was never about you

Maybe it’s courage

I’m meant to pursue

Maybe the lesson

Inside all this ache

Is love isn’t timing

It’s chances we take

So I stepped outside

With the neon and rain

Heart wide open

To feeling again

(Big harmony swell on “again”)

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(Final Chorus – biggest arrangement, sustained notes + ad libs)

You were never mine to lose

But you woke something in me

A quiet kind of bravery

I couldn’t see

Somewhere between maybe

And letting it end

I found the part of me

That might try again

(Ad lib vocal layer: “try again… try again…”)

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(Outro – piano reprise, soft electric guitar sustain)

I walked past that window

One last time alone

But the night felt lighter

On the way home