11. THE LAST COFFEE

TITLE: THE LAST COFFEE [Intro – Felt piano, ambient electric violin, soft café ambience, distant rain] [Ghost Vocoder] one more morning... just for now... [Verse 1 – MALE] The barista knew your order Before you reached the counter Same as always Like nothing had changed People filled the tables Morning moved along The city kept pretending This was just another day You laughed about a headline Something neither of us read The kind of conversation We'd had a hundred times before But every little detail Seemed brighter than it should Like my mind was trying To remember it already [Pre-Chorus] Funny how ordinary moments Start to shine before they go [Chorus – Warm Future Soul] We talked about everything Except goodbye Weather and weekend plans And where the years went You stirred your coffee I watched the window Both of us pretending This was just another morning We talked about everything Except goodbye [Ambient Electric Violin Response] [Verse 2 – FEMALE] Someone dropped a tray behind us Made the whole room turn around You joked that some things never change And for a second I wished you were right Outside the rain kept falling Inside the music played The same old song we'd heard before Without really listening Funny how a place can hold More memories than you realize Until you're sitting in them One last time [Pre-Chorus – DUET] [MALE] Funny what stays with you [FEMALE] Long before it's gone [DUET] Funny how the heart remembers While the moment's still moving on [Chorus – DUET] We talked about everything Except goodbye Traffic and old stories And people we'd known You smiled across the table Like every other morning Both of us pretending This was just another one We talked about everything Except goodbye [Instrumental – Ambient Electric Violin Lead] [Felt Piano] [Soft Reverse Piano Swells] [Bridge – Beat Drops Away] [MALE] I wanted to ask If things would feel different [FEMALE] I wanted to ask too [MALE] But neither of us did [Long Pause] [FEMALE] Maybe some questions Don't need answers right away [Ghost Vocoder] right away... [Final Chorus – Full Harmonies] We talked about everything Except goodbye The little things The everyday things That somehow meant the most The coffee got colder The morning moved faster And neither of us stopped it We talked about everything Except goodbye Different cities Different roads Still grateful for the time We talked about everything Except goodbye [Outro – Felt Piano, Ambient Electric Violin] [MALE] Safe travels. [FEMALE] See you around. [Ghost Vocoder] one more morning... just for now... [Ambient Electric Violin Carries Final Melody] [Fade Out]