Until My Name Is Called

[Intro]
[soft keys
Stacked “ooh” backgrounds]
Mmm
(yeah)
Thought we had forever
But forever came too soon
[Verse 1]
I still pour two cups of coffee
Leave your side on the sofa free
Talk to you like you still there
TV on to your favorite scene
I keep your robe on the doorway
Can’t move your shoes from the floor
Every little thing you left me
Feels like you walking through that door
[Pre-Chorus]
I replay that last “I love you”
On a loop inside my mind
Try to sing myself to sleep but
Your silence breaks me every time
[Chorus]
I’m still loving you
Past the end of the world we knew
Past the sunrise you can’t see
You’re gone
But you’re holding me
I’m still reaching out
To the side of the bed you’re not in now
If heaven ever lets you hear my call
I’ll be loving you
Until my name is called
(background: “’til my name, ’til my name is called”)
[Verse 2]
I drive the long way to work now
Pass that park where we first kissed
Every red light feels like asking
“How you gonna live like this?”
Your mama calls just to check in
We both pretend we’re doing fine
But every pause between our words is
You still talking in our minds
[Pre-Chorus]
I keep your number in my phone
Like somehow it still might ring
I whisper all the things I’m scared of
Hope an angel lets you sing
[Chorus]
I’m still loving you
Past the end of the world we knew
Past the sunrise you can’t see
You’re gone
But you’re holding me
I’m still reaching out
To the side of the bed you’re not in now
If heaven ever lets you hear my call
I’ll be loving you
Until my name is called
(background: “I’ll be loving, I’ll be loving you”)
[Bridge]
Tell me
Do they let you
Watch me when I break?
Can you feel my heartbeat
Every step I take?
If tears could build a stairway
You know I’d climb it all
Just to feel your breath say
“My baby
I never left at all”
(background: “never left, never left at all”)
[Chorus]
I’m still loving you
Past the end of the world we knew
Past the sunrise you can’t see
You’re gone
But you’re holding me
I’m still reaching out
To the side of the bed you’re not in now
If heaven ever lets you hear my call
I’ll be loving you
Until my name is called
(background: “ooh, ’til my name is called”)
[Modulated Final Chorus]
(key change, bigger choir)
I’m still loving you
Through the years that I fall into
Through the nights I can’t stand still
Through the ache I always feel
I’m still calling out
To the space where your voice used to drown me out
If heaven ever lets you hear my call
I’ll be loving you
Until my name is called
(background: “’til my name, ’til my name, ’til my name is called”)
[Outro / Vamp]
[band drops softer
Vocals carry]
(I’m still loving you)
(background: “still loving you, yeah”)
(I’m still needing you)
(background: “needing you, ohh”)
(I ain’t letting go)
’Til they call me home
(background: “’til they call you home”)
One more day
One more breath
Every step
Every fall
I’ll be loving you
Until my name
Is called
(background: “’til your name… is called…”)

Slow-burning 90s R&B ballad with male vocals; rich Rhodes piano and warm bass under a laid-back swing groove, snare with soft rimshots, and subtle guitar fills. Lead vocal silky and melismatic, stacked choirs answering key phrases. Big modulation on the final chorus, long ad-libs to stretch runtime toward 5 minutes, and a vamped outro with call-and-response between lead and background vocalists., r&b