[LIVE INTRO – guitar feedback, slow build] [drummer counts in softly, crowd noise fades , 10 seconds ] [ instrumental crying electric guitar, powerful bass and drum] [ speak intro] Hi everyone… [crowd cheers] Thank you all so much for being here tonight Seriously… it means everything to us. thanks for making a bunch of awkward kids feel like rockstars. [crowd cheers, guitarist hits a small harmonic] Make some noise if you’re ready to feel something. [ instrumental crying electric guitar, powerful bass and drum] ________ ________oh ooooh !!yeah!!! [Verse 1 – half-spoken, restrained] Tell me what you’ll do when the thrill stops answering, when every night feels rehearsed and desire clocks out early. When you’ve memorized the pattern of wanting something just to lose it, and you come back to old rooms out of reflex, not hope. I won’t be standing where I was. I’ve been moving without leaving, learning how silence speaks when nothing promises to stay. [Pre-Chorus – band creeps in, tension rising] I know the day arrives when all this breaks you slowly, no drama, no grand collapse. But once you choose to walk away meaning becomes optional… and light learns how to fade. [Chorus – full band hits, crowd opens up] ’Cause without you the world keeps spinning anyway. If you go, if you go, if you leave me, the sky won’t change its mind. If you go, if you go, I’ll still sing… just not for you. If you go, if you go, I’ll trade grief for distance, I won’t follow the echo back. I won’t be there. [Post-Chorus – instrumental break, guitar answering the vocal] [Verse 2 – louder, angrier, more air] Every beginning lies beautifully, every ending pretends it’s fine. Time peels the color off things we swore would never rot. When routine sharpens its teeth and mirrors stop being kind, you’ll reach for names that no longer fit, for places that already moved on. By then I’ll be fluent in letting go, a thousand nights past recognition, somewhere this city can’t pronounce, somewhere I don’t miss you. [Chorus – repeat, crowd louder, drummer heavier] ’Cause without you the world keeps spinning anyway. If you go, if you go, if you leave me, the sky won’t change its mind. If you go, if you go, I’ll still sing… just not for you. If you go, if you go, I’ll trade grief for distance, don’t look for me in the past. I won’t be there. [Outro – band drops out, voice raw, almost talking] If you go… [beat stops] let the song finish alone. [soft guitar comes back] I’ll still be singing. [pause, crowd breath] Just not about you. [Lights fade. Guitar feedback. Crowd noise rises.]
