The Look In Your Eye

[Verse 1]
Coffee gone cold
Ticket in my hand
Your sweater on the chair
Like it could stand in for me
You traced my name
On the window glass
Said
“Text me from the gate”
Tried to make it sound easy
[Pre-Chorus]
You laughed too quick
At a tired joke
Your fingers shook
When you fixed my coat [low vocal register]
[Chorus]
The look in your eye when it was time for me to go
Said everything your mouth was too brave to show
All the words we folded
Hiding in your throat
The look in your eye when it was time for me to go
[Verse 2]
Bright plastic chairs
Announcements over us
You kept reading my boarding pass
Like it could still change
You said
“It’s just months
It’s just a flight”
But your heartbeat drummed on my chest
Like it knew the lie
[Pre-Chorus]
You turned your head
But your hand held tight
Pulled me back once more
Like you could stretch the night
[Chorus]
The look in your eye when it was time for me to go
[Bridge]
Now it’s screens and static faces
Different beds
Familiar phrases
“I’m fine
I’m fine
” but you blink too slow [whispered vocals]
I see that same gaze
From a thousand miles away
[Chorus]
[Chorus]

Slow-blooming indie ballad with intimate male vocals over soft piano and swelling strings. First verse sparse and close-mic’d; subtle pads and low strings enter on pre-chorus, then chorus opens with lush legato strings and a wider stereo piano. Second verse adds light percussion and distant guitar swells, final chorus lifts with stacked harmonies and a held vocal ad-lib before tapering to just piano and voice., slow, raw, male vocals, deep