Melancholy and Lost love (Cover) Duet Rework

[Start] [Verse 1] [Male - (breathy, low)] Maybe if the world had gone a different way Maybe if my heart was born another day [Female - (dark, aching)] I would’ve fallen in love with you And maybe… you would’ve fallen [Both, overlapping] Too [Male] Maybe I would’ve gotten over you [Female] Maybe you would’ve given me a turn [Both, hushed] Maybe we would’ve loved each other… (Maybe…) Maybe… [Soft instrumental – harp + detuned piano] [Chorus] [Female - (soaring, broken)] I don’t think I ever want to love again Not like that Not like this [Male - (tender, almost whispering)] Maybe in another life… or a life with you It was a good life… [Both, fragile] I mean… it was alright [Rich string crescendo into silence] [Verse 2] [Male] You would always let me in… just to break me down I always came crawling back for more of the sound [Female - (bitter laugh under breath)] You loved the sound [Male] But we always made it work, somehow, just me and you You’d kiss me slow and swear [Female - (cutting in, icy)] “It doesn’t hurt” [Male - (voice cracking)] But I know it do [Female] You’d hate me just to say “It doesn’t work” [Male - (defeated)] And maybe it do **[Both, pleading] I tried to be everything you deserve So close… Yet so far away It was so close… Yet so far away [Orchestral swell – diminished fifth stabs] [Chorus] [Female - (almost screaming on the edge)] I don’t think I ever want to love again Not like that Not like this [Male - (soft, devastated)] Maybe in another life… or the life we almost had It was a good life… **[Both, fading] I mean… it was alright [Dramatic pause – heartbeat kick drum] [Bridge – voices layered, echoing] **[Both, alternating then together] It was so close… Yet so far away (It was so close…) Yet so far away So close… So far… So close… Yet so far away [Final Verse – stripped to piano + cello] [Female - (whisper-sung)] If this is love… I don’t want it Took me years to realise I was never the one for you [Male - (barely audible)] Nor you for me **[Both, one last breath] It was so close… Yet so far away [Final crashing orchestral + synth chord – then silence] [End]