[Intro] If you hear this… I hope it doesn’t hurt. I hope it just feels true. [Verse] I still reach for my phone like you’re there, Like you didn’t disappear into air. I still save you a spot in my bed, Then I laugh at myself and I stare. I learned how to smile in a room full of people, Then cry in the car on the way. I’m “doing fine” like it’s part of the costume, But I break when the music turns down. [Pre-Chorus] And I hate that I’m okay without you— ’Cause it proves you can leave and I’ll live… But I don’t want a life that keeps moving If you’re not in it. [Chorus] (catchy + devastating) I keep your side empty, I swear it still feels like you, Like love doesn’t know when it’s over, it just stays in the room. And I’ve tried to replace you with time, but it won’t let me move, So I carry your name in my chest like a song that I can’t remove. Yeah I’m healing… but I’m missing you. [Drop] (chopped phrases) “your side empty…” “missing you…” “can’t remove…” [Verse 2] I still hear you in songs I don’t play, In the places we never got to. I still replay the day that we ended, Like my heart needs the proof. And I don’t hate you, I never could, That’s what makes this worse… You were my peace in a loud world, Now silence is a curse. [Pre-Chorus] So I’m learning to breathe through the damage, Learning love doesn’t always stay… But I swear some goodbyes don’t feel final, They just feel like decay. [Chorus] I keep your side empty, I swear it still feels like you, Like love doesn’t know when it’s over, it just stays in the room. And I’ve tried to replace you with time, but it won’t let me move, So I carry your name in my chest like a song that I can’t remove. Yeah I’m healing… but I’m missing you. [Bridge] If you ever wonder what you left behind, It’s not anger, it’s a quiet kind of pain… It’s me learning how to hold a memory Without begging it to change. [Final Chorus] I keep your side empty, I swear it still feels like you, Like love doesn’t know when it’s over, it just stays in the room. And I’ve tried to replace you with time, but it won’t let me move, So I carry your name in my chest like a song that I can’t remove. Yeah I’m healing… but I’m missing you. [Outro] So if you hear this… I hope it doesn’t hurt. I hope it just feels true.
