The Last Time We Were Both Alive at the Same Time
[Intro] [Key: E Minor] [slow fingerpicked acoustic guitar] [faint accordion drone] [room ambience] [no percussion] [Verse 1] [vocal intimate and exhausted] I found a voicemail from eight years ago You were asking if I wanted to get lunch The whole message lasted seventeen seconds And somehow that felt cruel Because seventeen seconds Is apparently long enough To miss somebody forever [Interlude] [upright bass enters softly] [accordion swells] [Verse 2] I listened to it four times Trying to hear something I missed A warning A prophecy Instructions But mostly you were just wondering If Tuesday worked better than Wednesday And that's what hurts How mondain it was [Chorus] [soft harmony enters] Nobody tells you The last conversation Is usually about nothing Nobody tells you The end of the world Rarely announces itself [Instrumental] [mandolin melody] [accordion carries counter-melody] [Verse 3] I keep thinking grief Should have more respect for calendars But it doesn't It shows up on random Thursdays Because of a song Or a smell Or a jacket hanging in a closet That nobody wears anymore [Chorus] [slightly stronger vocal] Nobody tells you The last conversation Is usually about nothing Nobody tells you The end of the world Rarely announces itself [Bridge] [instruments nearly disappear] [accordion and bass only] [sung quietly] When I was younger I thought losing people Would feel like something being taken away Instead it feels like carrying them Everywhere Until one day You realize you've forgotten the sound of their laugh And panic Because that's all you had left [Instrumental Build] [banjo enters] [accordion rises] [upright bass becomes more melodic] [Final Chorus] [voice cracking slightly] Nobody tells you Memory is mortal too Nobody tells you The second death Is quieter than the first [Outro] [instruments slowly fall away] [acoustic guitar alone] The voicemail ends You say: "Call me back when you get this." I still haven't [accordion sustains final E minor chord] [room ambience] [silence]
