[Intro — dark Rhodes electric piano, muted felt piano layer, soft sub bass enters, no drums yet] Already gone Mm Already gone [Verse 1 — close-mic, Rhodes and felt piano, brushed snare enters soft] We haven't talked in half a decade Five years and some change I used to count the months in the beginning Now I couldn't tell you the date You're not somebody I'm missing You're somebody I finished A long time ago in the quiet After the noise diminished I had to grieve you while you were living And that was the hardest part Funerals are simple A slow estrangement breaks the heart But I did the work in the dark years When I still hoped you'd come around I put you down piece by piece Till there was nothing left to put down [Pre-Chorus — sub bass deepens, ambient pad enters, drums steady] Now I don't think about you on holidays I don't wonder where you are I don't keep your number for emergencies I don't keep a single scar [Chorus — low melodic, unresolved, weighted] You're already gone Already gone The man I called my brother Walked off years before you'd done I'm not waiting I'm not torn You're already gone You been already gone Already gone [Verse 2 — guitar swell enters, Rhodes warmer, drums tighter] People ask if I have siblings I say I had a brother once They wait for me to soften it I let the silence do the rest Some losses aren't a tragedy Some losses are a relief And the world doesn't know what to do With a man who doesn't grieve I'm not bitter, I'm not angry I'm not holding any debt I just emptied out the room And I closed it without regret You can be blood and be gone You can share a name and be done You can be the brother I had And not the brother that I have, son [Pre-Chorus — fuller, ambient pad widens] Now I don't think about you on holidays I don't wonder where you are I don't keep your number for emergencies I don't keep a single scar [Chorus — slightly fuller, still unresolved] You're already gone Already gone The man I called my brother Walked off years before you'd done I'm not waiting I'm not torn You're already gone You been already gone Already gone [Bridge — drums drop, Rhodes and felt piano alone, voice closest and most exposed, the hardest line lands flat] If you passed away tomorrow I wouldn't cry I wouldn't make the drive to see you I wouldn't say goodbye That's not cruelty, that's the cost Of the work I had to do To stop carrying a man Who stopped carrying me too And the part of me that loves you Is the part that learned to let A person be the thing they choose Without taking it as threat You chose to walk And I chose to stop following You been already gone Long before this morning [Final Chorus — same restraint, same emotional altitude, no climb] You're already gone Already gone The man I called my brother Walked off years before you'd done I'm not waiting I'm not torn You're already gone You been already gone Already gone [Outro — Rhodes fades, sub bass holds, voice quiet] Already gone Already gone The brother I had Is the brother I had And the brother I have now Is none Already gone
