Five Years in One Night

[Verse 1]
Clock on the wall
Keeps flinching at me
Hands crawl in circles
Like they’re stuck in my grief
Coffee gone cold
Phone face-down by the sink
Your name in my throat
But the words always sink
[Chorus]
Heartbreak tastes like yesterday
On a loop I can’t rewind
Every second feels the same
But you keep getting further in time
All this pain I never show
Sits heavy where your promise used to glow
If I mean nothing in your eyes
Why do you live forever in mine?
[Verse 2]
Friends say “you’re fine”
Like it’s something you choose
They don’t see the mornings
Where I wake up and lose
I scrub out the mirror
Till my face starts to smear
If I vanish a little
Would the hurt disappear?
[Chorus]
Heartbreak tastes like yesterday
On a loop I can’t rewind
Every second feels the same
But you keep getting further in time
All this pain I never show
Sits heavy where your promise used to glow
If I mean nothing in your eyes
Why do you live forever in mine?
[Bridge]
Maybe I was just a season
You were looking for a door
I was busy building reasons
You were halfway to the floor
Tell me
What’s a soul to you
When it’s easy to discard?
(Yeah) if I’m so worthless
Why is living this hard?
[Chorus]
Heartbreak tastes like yesterday
On a loop I can’t rewind
Every second feels the same
But you keep getting further in time
All this pain I never show
Sits heavy where your promise used to glow
If I mean nothing in your eyes
Why do you live forever in mine?
Why do you live forever in mine?

Sparse minor-key piano and distant pads, male vocals close and confessional. First verse nearly a whisper; chorus opens with warm low-end, subtle kick, and intimate stacked harmonies. Bridge adds airy vocal doubles and rising strings that swell then fall back to a single dry voice on the final line, leaving space and silence as part of the rhythm.