Prompt / Lyrics
[Verse 1] You were my secret shift in the evening Door locked, lights off, hearts loud, deep breathing You’d park two blocks down, same old backstreet Sneak in, shoes in your hand, cold feet, warm sheets Nobody knew ’bout the names in your phone Those inside jokes only we could decode You’d say, “We’re a rumor that never got started” Guess we stayed a rumor, you just…departed [Chorus] How you gonna die and not say goodbye to me Leave me in a crowd, screaming silently I’m crying at a funeral I can’t even attend Watching from a distance like we never were a thing How you gonna vanish, take my half of the sky Make me act like I’m fine when I’m breaking inside You’re gone, they’re grieving who they thought you’d be But nobody knows you were everything to me [Verse 2] I scroll your page, see the slideshow of saints Halo in pixels, all the praise, all the paint They talk like they knew every thought in your head Yet I held the versions you hid under the bed The boy who hated birthdays, flinched at balloons The man who said love felt like leaving too soon Now you’re on a T-shirt, smiling in white While I’m in the background, cropped out of your life [Chorus] How you gonna die and not say goodbye to me Leave me in a crowd, screaming silently I’m crying at a funeral I can’t even attend Watching from a distance like we never were a thing How you gonna vanish, take my half of the sky Make me act like I’m fine when I’m breaking inside You’re gone, they’re grieving who they thought you’d be But nobody knows you were everything to me [Bridge] I still argue with the air on my bedroom floor (yeah) “Why you leave the way you always left before?” Slip out quick, promise “next time,” now there’s no next night Just your hoodie on the chair and your ghost in my mind Maybe I was just a chapter you forgot to write So I’m burning every page that never saw the light (hey) But I still keep your coffee cup turned to the wall ‘Cause if they ever see it, I’ll have to tell it all [Chorus] How you gonna die and not say goodbye to me Leave me in a crowd, screaming silently I’m crying at a funeral I can’t even attend Watching from a distance like we never were a thing How you gonna vanish, take my half of the sky Make me act like I’m fine when I’m breaking inside You’re gone, and they’ll never know what we used to be So I’ll carry our story where nobody sees Yeah, nobody knows you were everything to me
Tags
rap, Hybrid rap-rock-pop ballad; intimate keys and distant pads under confessional verses, then drums and distorted guitars crash in for choruses. Male vocals with a bruised, conversational rap flow in the verses, cracked melodic belting in the hook. Subby bass and airy backing harmonies lift the refrain; bridge strips back to vocal and minimal guitar before a final, huge chorus., rock, pop
Duration
3:25
Instrumental
No
Created
3/27/2026