Where You Are

(ambient guitar, soft piano, slow pulse)

I still reach for you sometimes

Like you’re just not picking up

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It’s the quiet that gets me most

Not the noise, not the crowd

Just the moments in between

When everything slows down

Driving roads we used to take

Like they still lead somewhere

I catch myself turning back

Like you might still be there

There’s a weight in every corner

Of the things we used to know

Like the air still holds your voice

Even when it’s letting go

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I don’t say it much

But it don’t go away

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I don’t know where you are

But I feel you close to me

In the space between the words

In the silence in between

It don’t hit all at once

It just comes in waves

I carry you with me now

In a different way

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Some days I can almost breathe

Like it’s easier to stand

Then something small reminds me

You’re not reaching for my hand

It’s the things I didn’t say

And the time I thought I had

All the moments I held back

Now they echo in the past

There’s a photograph in my mind

That I don’t know how to frame

Every version of goodbye

Still don’t look the same

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I hold it together

But it never really leaves

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I don’t know where you are

But I feel you close to me

In the space between the words

In the silence in between

It don’t hit all at once

It just comes in waves

I carry you with me now

In a different way

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(piano + light strings)

If love don’t disappear

Then neither do you

You just move somewhere

I can’t get to

And I’ve learned how to live

With what I can’t change

But it don’t mean

It don’t stay the same

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I don’t know where you are

But I feel you close to me

In the quiet, in the dark

In the parts I cannot see

It don’t fade with time

It just learns to stay

I carry you with me now

In a different way

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(piano resolves, soft guitar tail)