[Intro – Instrumental] (Soft fingerpicked acoustic guitar + distant piano + very light rain sound in background)

[Verse 1]
I still keep your side of the bed untouched
The pillow remembers the way your hair would crush
Every midnight silence screams your name too loud
While this empty room just keeps on wearing your cloud

[Pre-Chorus]
I told myself a thousand times I’d learn to breathe alone
But every breath still tastes like coming home

[Chorus]
That’s why the lights feel colder every evening
That’s why my hands keep reaching for the nothing you’re leaving
That’s why the rain keeps asking where you’ve gone
And why my heart still answers… you were the song
You were the only song

[Interlude – Instrumental]
(Clean electric guitar melody with lots of space + soft string swells + faint echo of the chorus melody)

[Verse 2]
Your laughter lives inside these peeling walls
It bounces once then quietly falls
I trace the shape of words we never said
While time keeps folding all the years we bled

[Pre-Chorus]
I thought the distance would be kind with time
But absence only sharpened every line

[Chorus]
That’s why the stars look smaller from this window
That’s why my coffee’s bitter since you let go
That’s why the mornings beg me to forget
But every sunrise whispers… not yet
Darling… not yet

[Verse 3 – Shared Memories]
I close my eyes and see us dancing in the kitchen light
Bare feet on cold tiles, laughing through the night
Your fingers tangled in my hair, the radio too loud
We promised forever underneath that tiny cloud

[Bridge]
If love was a house, you were the only light left on
Now I’m walking through the dark with your name on every wall
And I still don’t know how to turn it off…
I still don’t know how

[Final Chorus – bigger but still tender]
That’s why my chest keeps breaking in slow motion
That’s why I love you more after the explosion
That’s why the silence hurts more than goodbye
Because you’re still the reason…
You’re still the reason I try

[Outro – Instrumental fade]
(Very soft acoustic picking + piano + gentle rain sound returns… slowly fades into silence)
(Last whispered line over almost nothing)
…come back…
…please…