[5-second instrumental intro]
[soft piano chords with slow-building ambient strings and warm pads]

[ Verse 1]
Was that really our last goodbye?
Your eyes—they shook, but not a word.
I stood there frozen,
Nodding instead of speaking.

A hundred things I meant to say,
but my lips—
they shut tight.
Nothing made it out.

[ Pre-Chorus]
Now you’re showing up
in every silence,
in every breath.
I’m not trying to remember you—
You’re just... there.

[Chorus]
You stayed the same, I fell apart.
You kept on smiling, I fell to the floor.
You walked away,
but I couldn’t move.

More than the words that said it’s over,
what broke me—
was your back turned
without a pause.
I’m still here…
but you were already gone.

[Verse 2]
Even the ordinary feels too bright—
the alley we used to walk,
now a stranger to my steps.

I didn’t know
how loud your absence would be.
So quiet, it hurts.

[Pre-Chorus]
Funny, how memory edits the film:
Not the fight,
just the first laugh.
Not the ending,
just how it felt to begin.

[Chorus]
You stayed the same, I changed too much.
You had dreams—
I had echoes.
You moved on,
I moved in circles.

I never thought “it’s over”
could wreck me this slow.
You said goodbye,
but I’m still stuck
in the day before.

[Bridge]
If you'd waited
just a little longer...
Would we have made it?

Would we be laughing now
instead of erasing everything?

[ Final Chorus (with high emotion, vocal climax)]
You stayed the same, I disappeared.
You faded forward,
I’m still standing
on the same cracked sidewalk.

No, we can’t go back—
I learned that too late.
But maybe that’s why it still hurts.
Maybe that’s why it still echoes.

[3-second instrumental outro]
[echoing piano note fading into soft strings, like a breath held and released]