Tempo: 70 BPM
Style: Emotional 90s alt-rock ballad, Jeff Buckley / Goo Goo Dolls / Radiohead influence
Instrumentation ideas: Clean electric guitar arpeggios → swelling electric chords → ambient pads → string layer in chorus
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Verse 1
The street is empty, but your shadow stays
A photograph I can’t erase
The air tastes like rain, like distant days
Every step I take calls your name
Your jacket’s on the chair where you left it
The smell lingers, I can’t forget it
Time is slow and cruel in your absence
Every heartbeat echoes your absence
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Pre-Chorus
I reach for you
And the space fights back
I reach for truth
And the world cracks
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Chorus (soaring, emotional)
When the light fades
I still see you here
In the quiet, in the ache, in the fear
When the world breaks
I still hear your voice
Telling me love survives
Even when we have no choice
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Verse 2
Your laugh is a ghost in the hallway
I trace it like a memory I can’t keep
The walls lean in, they whisper your name
I hold onto fragments in my sleep
Every song on the radio
Feels like a letter I’ll never know
If we’re meant to collide again
Or just learn to let go
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Pre-Chorus 2
I reach for you
And the night trembles
I reach for truth
In all its edges
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Chorus 2 (bigger, full band)
When the light fades
I still see you here
In the quiet, in the ache, in the fear
When the world breaks
I still hear your voice
Telling me love survives
Even when we have no choice
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Bridge (dramatic, emotional peak)
Maybe we were never meant to stay
Maybe some hearts belong to yesterday
But even broken, even torn apart
You leave a mark I carry in my heart
(build instrumental → heavy guitar swells + drums kick in)
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Final Chorus (full, layered, emotional climax)
When the light fades
I still see you here
In the quiet, in the ache, in the fear
When the world breaks
I still hear your voice
Telling me love survives
Even when we have no choice
When the light fades
I will hold you near
Even in shadows
Even in tears
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Outro (minimal, haunting)
The street is empty
But your shadow stays
And I will follow
Even when the light fades
