First Night I Can’t Forget

[Verse 1]
Empty bed
Cold side where you slept
Your shadow still
On the ceiling fan
First night
Keeps playing in my head
Laughing at nothing
’til the sky turned pale
[Pre-Chorus]
I trace your name
On my phone screen light
Type it again
Then erase each line
[Chorus]
It’s hard letting you go
When you were all I wanted
Loving you was something
I was never meant to hold
Reach for you in the dark
But you were never mine to keep
I’m wide awake in this dream
And you belong to someone else but me
[Verse 2]
Coffee cup
Lipstick from that week
I still pretend
You’re running late
You called it “almost”
I called it fate
Guess I read too much
Into your gaze
[Pre-Chorus]
I tell my friends
I’m over it now
Then hear your name
And I fall back down
[Chorus]
It’s hard letting you go
When you were all I wanted
Loving you was something
I was never meant to hold
Reach for you in the dark
But you were never mine to keep
I’m wide awake in this dream
And you belong to someone else but me
[Bridge]
If I could rewrite
Our first night together
I’d stop my heart
Before it ran ahead
But you kissed my cheek
Said “this can’t be forever”
And I still dove in
Like you’d stay instead (oh)
[Chorus]
It’s hard letting you go
When you were all I wanted
Loving you was something
I was never meant to hold
Reach for you in the dark
But you were never mine to keep
I’m wide awake in this dream
’cause you belong to someone else
Not me
Yeah you belong to someone else
And never me

pop, Moody pop ballad with intimate piano and warm pads, male vocals up close and breathy. Verses stay sparse, soft bass and distant rim clicks; chorus swells with wider reverb, layered harmonies, and a simple, aching synth hook. Final chorus drops to near a cappella, then builds back with strings for a cathartic, tearful lift., sad