When I'm Gone

[Verse 1]
When I’m gone, don’t search the rooms
I won’t be hiding in the quiet
I’ve left enough of myself in you
In how you love, in what you try

I didn’t live loud, but I lived true
Measured my days, respected time
Every scar I carried taught me
How to stay gentle and still survive

I learned time isn’t promised, it’s borrowed
So I spent it learning how to feel
Not faster, not louder just honest
That was the most real thing I did

[Pre-Chorus]
I learned the body fades
But care doesn’t
And love doesn’t leave
It just finds new ways
To stay

[Chorus]
When I’m gone, don’t say I lost
I was here, I felt, I stayed
I learned how fragile life can be
And chose it anyway

If you remember anything of me
Let it be this tone
I wasn’t afraid of dying
I was grateful to have known

[Verse 2]
Tell the story softly if you need
Not the fear, not the machines
Say I listened to my heartbeat
Like it was teaching me

Tell them I stopped rushing the future
Stopped asking for more than today
I made peace with the fragile moments
And that’s where I learned how to stay

Say I moved carefully, yes
But I still moved forward
Say I loved in full sentences
Not in hurry, not disorder

[Bridge]
I didn’t stop dreaming.
I just learned what mattered.
I didn’t give up on life.
I learned how to listen to it.

I don’t need monuments.
I need peace.
I don’t need forever.
I had now.

[Final Chorus]
When I’m gone, look forward still
Don’t live smaller on my behalf
If I gave you anything at all
Let it be the courage to last

I didn’t beat time, I honored it
That was my way through
And if you hear me in quiet moments
That’s where I’ll still be with you

And if my name comes up someday
Let it come with grace
I wasn’t defined by what I faced
I was defined by how I stayed

[Outro]
When I’m gone…
I’ll still be here.
Just quieter.

Minimal cinematic ballad/ atmospheric hip hop,Rap,Tempo 60–66 BPM,Female Intimate vocal,Time signature 4/4,D minor