[Verse]
[Female Vocal]
[Solo Piano]
You walk around like nothing happened,
Like my name never crossed your mind.
I keep replaying every promise,
Trying to find where yours stopped matching mine.
I gave my heart without a ledger,
Never counted what I’d lose.
Now I’m standing in the silence,
Wondering if I was just convenient to you.
[Pre-Chorus]
[Add Strings]
I don’t need forever.
I don’t need you to come home.
I just need one truth
Before I learn to let you go.
[Chorus]
[Add Drums]
[Add Electric Guitar]
[Add Harmonies]
Tell me I was real.
Tell me I wasn’t just a place to land
Until you found somewhere easier to stand.
Tell me the love I felt wasn’t mine alone.
Tell me I left a mark that you can’t outgrow.
I can survive goodbye,
I can survive the pain,
But don’t make me wonder
If I’d vanished all the same.
Just tell me I was real.
[Verse]
The hardest part was never losing you.
It was watching you lose me so easily.
Like everything we carried
Was lighter in your hands than it was in mine.
I keep asking empty questions
To a heart that won’t reply.
Maybe closure isn’t answers.
Maybe it’s learning not to chase goodbye.
[Pre-Chorus]
You don’t owe me forever.
You don’t owe me another chance.
Just don’t erase the story
Like I was never in the past.
[Power Chorus]
Tell me I mattered.
Tell me my name still echoes somewhere
When the room gets quiet and nobody’s there.
Tell me you fought yourself,
Even if you never fought for me.
Tell me losing me
Wasn’t as easy as it seemed.
I buried dreams.
I buried hope.
I buried the little boy
Who never got to come home.
Don’t let all that’s left of us
Be memories only I can feel.
If nothing else…
Tell me I was real.
[Bridge]
[Drop Back to Piano Only]
[Whispered Vocals]
Maybe you’ll never say it.
Maybe I’ll never know.
Maybe the strongest people
Are the ones who let unanswered questions go.
But if my name ever finds you
On some ordinary day,
I hope it hurts just enough
To remember… I stayed.
[Final Chorus]
[Explosion of Full Vocal Layers and Instrumentation]
You don’t have to love me.
You don’t have to come back.
You don’t have to fix
Everything we let collapse.
Just don’t rewrite the story
Like my heart was never here.
The only thing I’m begging for…
The only thing I need to hear…
Is that somewhere beneath all the anger,
Somewhere beneath all the pride,
There was a part of you
That couldn’t bear to watch me cry.
Tell me I mattered.
Tell me I was loved.
Tell me I was more than someone
You simply got tired of.
Tell me I was real.
