FOREVER BROKEN 💔 FT. €ASHE

[Intro - felt piano, vinyl air, almost dry] [Male A - close, spoken] I still know the code to your door. Funny what the heart refuses to delete. [Male B - low, tired] I still wake up on my side before I remember there is no “our side.” [Male A] So tell me something. [Male B] If I knew, I would. [Both - whispered] When did we break? [Verse 1 - sparse R&B pulse] [Male A] Two cups waiting by the sink, your jacket hanging on my chair. I kept stepping around your shoes like you were still living there. You used to call me from the car, I’d hear the smile before “hello.” Then one night the phone stayed quiet. I didn’t know that quiet could grow. [Male B] I remember eating in the same room, both of us staring at a screen. You asked me if I was okay. I said, “yeah.” You knew what I meant. I saw the distance getting wider, I just thought we had more time. So I stopped asking you to stay and you stopped asking why. [Pre-Chorus - traded lines, harmony rising] [Male A] No slammed door. [Male B] No final fight. [Male A] No last goodbye. [Male B] Just less of us every night. [Both] We didn’t shatter all at once. We disappeared in little pieces. [Chorus - emotional duet] [Male A] Now we’re forever broken, still carrying words we never spoke. [Male B] Too close to call you a stranger, too far away to call you home. [Male A] I remember how you found me. [Male B] I remember how you felt. [Both - harmony] But somewhere in the silence we became somebody else. Forever broken. Not together. Not over. Just forever broken. [Drop A - melodic emotional EDM] [Vocal chops: “forever” / “broken”] [Wide minor-key supersaws, bright pluck motif, no full lyrics] [Verse 2 - role swap, Rhodes and distant guitar] [Male B] Maybe it was some Tuesday that never looked important then. Maybe you reached across the mattress and I said, “give me five minutes.” Maybe five became an hour. Maybe hours became our life. Maybe love didn’t leave the building. Maybe it just stopped turning on the lights. [Male A] I started saving things to tell you then forgetting when you came home. Started laughing at my own messages because talking felt easier alone. I blamed work. You blamed sleep. We blamed everything but us. And the worst part is nothing happened. Nothing happened until nothing was enough. [Pre-Chorus 2 - heartbeat stomp enters] [Male B] When did “come here” become “maybe later”? [Male A] When did “I love you” start sounding like a favor? [Male B] When did your hand stop finding mine? [Male A] When did I stop noticing? [Both - breath held] How the hell did we lose forever without losing anything? [Chorus 2 - roles reversed] [Male B] Now we’re forever broken, still carrying words we never spoke. [Male A] Too close to call you a stranger, too far away to call you home. [Male B] I remember how you found me. [Male A] I remember how you felt. [Both] But somewhere in the silence we became somebody else. Forever broken. Not together. Not over. Just forever broken. [Drop B - collision win] [Half-time R&B drums under the trance motif, darker bass answers] [Vocal fragments trade left/right: “not over” / “broken” / “forever”] [Piano Breakdown - nearly dry] [Male A] Tell me the exact moment. [Male B] I can’t. [Male A] The last real kiss? [Male B] I don’t know. [Male A] The last time you reached for me? [Male B - voice cracks] I don’t know. [Pause] [Male B] Do you? [Male A - almost whisper] No. [Male B] That’s the part that kills me. [Male A] Me too. [Final Build - inhale, changed double-stomp heartbeat] [Male A] If I had known it was the last time— [Male B] I would’ve stayed in the doorway. [Male A] I would’ve put the phone down. [Male B] I would’ve said what I was scared to say. [Both - rising, restrained] But nobody tells you when forever is ending. [Silence] [Both] FOREVER BROKEN. [Final Drop - Worlds Converge] [Main supersaw melody + R&B vocal chops + final-only ghost choir countermelody] [Both - over final lift] Forever broken, still carrying words we never spoke. Forever broken, still loving what we had to let go. [Male A] No villain. [Male B] No winner. [Both] Just two people who got quieter than love could survive. Forever broken. [Outro - exposed piano and room tone] [Male B] Do you still think about us? [Male A] Sometimes. [Male B] Me too. [Long pause] [Male A] Goodnight. [Male B - barely audible] Goodnight. [Final piano note. No resolution.]