Die Already!

[Intro – softly sung like a chant] Why are you still here? Why… are you… still… here? Why are you still here? Why… are you… still… here? [Bridge – Half-sung, half-spoken] Time kept moving forward, But we were nailed in place. You were a breath I borrowed, A thought I couldn't face. Are you ghost or memory? Or just my own disgrace? [Instrumental Break – Slide guitar moaning low] [Chorus – Soulful, slow-burning] Harmonies in the light, echoes in the breeze, Flashes of forgotten dreams fired by the silence. Every note is a lonely memory, dancing in the dark, Fading like the starlight, leaving just a spark. Mmmmm, aaaaaaahhh [Verse 1 – Gritted teeth, slow blues rhythm] Die already! Who are you waiting for? Die already! What are you waitin’ for? Die already! You got no place no more. Why are you still here? Why not disappear? [Verse 2 – Rising tension] Why do you linger on, in shadows and in light? Fadin’ whispers call you through the cold, cold night. I buried your name beneath six feet of rain, But still you walk, still you whisper my name. Mmmmm, aaaaaaahhh [Verse 3 – Call and response] I lit the candles. (You blew them out.) I wrote the letters. (You left no doubt.) I tried to grieve. (You stayed behind.) You're the wound that memory couldn’t bind. Harmonies in the light, echoes in the breeze, Flashes of forgotten dreams fired by the silence. Every note is a lonely memory, dancing in the dark, Fading like the starlight, leaving just a spark. I swiped through the living, But your face comes back. You're not in my phone, But you’re still on my track. They say ghosts fade with time— Then why do you shine? [Breakdown – whispered chant, like a voodoo prayer] Gone but not gone... Dead but not done... Buried but breathin’... Alone with no sun... Tell me why… tell me why… Why are you still here? [Final Chorus – Slowing down] Harmonies in the light, echoes in the breeze, Flashes of forgotten dreams fired by the silence. Every note is a lonely memory, dancing in the dark, Fading like the starlight, leaving just a spark. No flame, no grave, no goodbye kiss, Just the space where something used to exist in the time between birth and death Hmmmm … [whispered:] why are you still here...? [Outro] I lit the last match just to see your face, One flicker in this cold, forgotten place. You didn’t speak — you never do, Just stood in the corner like the truth I knew. Mmmmm, aaaaaaahhh… I sang all my sorrow, drank all my fears, Still I wake with your silence in my ears. No prayer, no spell, no song can make you go, So I leave the door open… for the ghost I know. Hmmmmm… mmmmm… x2 [soft echo] the ghost I know...) (the ghost you know) Hmmmmm… [explosion of drums]