Shadows Where You Were

[Verse 1]
Room still set
like you coming home late
Jacket on the same old chair
dust on your nameplate
Half-played game on the screen
profile still online
I talk into the empty air
you left mid-line
Ashtray on the window ledge
phone on the floor
Last text still unread
I don't send more
I replay that day
like it's stuck on loop
Every minute that you breathing
every second that you don't
[Chorus]
I keep seeing your face in the dark
when I close my eyes too long
I keep holding your place in my heart
but the bed stay cold, stay wrong
If you hear me at all in the dark
just know that I'm still there too
I'm alive on this side of the scars
but I'm living like I died with you
(like I died with you)
[Verse 2]
People talk soft
say you in a better space
I just see the empty chair
never see your better place
Black suit, bright day
flowers on the ground
All I heard was dirt raining
heart sounding like it drowned
Now your mom still calls me "son"
then her voice shakes
She laughs at your old jokes
then the smile breaks
I wear your old hoodie
like a second skin
Zip it up to my throat
try to keep you in
[Chorus]
I keep seeing your face in the dark
when I close my eyes too long
I keep holding your place in my heart
but the bed stay cold, stay wrong
If you hear me at all in the dark
just know that I'm still there too
I'm alive on this side of the scars
but I'm living like I died with you
(like I died with you)
[Bridge]
I light one
let it burn down slow
Talk to the smoke
like it's something you know
If silence is all that I ever get back
I'll still keep speaking
till the sky talk back
[Chorus]
I keep seeing your face in the dark
when I close my eyes too long
I keep holding your place in my heart
but the bed stay cold, stay wrong
If you hear me at all in the dark
just know that I'm still there too
I'm alive on this side of the scars
but I'm living like I died with you
(like I died with you)

rap, Slow dark ambient rap, male vocals. Whispery close-mic delivery over low drones and distant, detuned pads, with a cold sub pulsing under sparse, clipped percussion. Verses almost spoken, intimate and restrained; hook opens wider with layered, echoing vocals and a washed-out reverb tail. Occasional reversed textures swell between lines, creating a haunted, weightless feel., ambient, dark ambient