[Intro — dark synth drone, 808 enters, voice low] Already gone Yeah Already gone I buried this while you was breathing [Hook — spoken chant, heavy negative space] Already gone Been already gone I ain’t waiting I ain’t torn Already gone Been already gone Same bloodline Different door Already gone Been already gone You left first I just moved on [Verse 1 — technical rap, pocketed, clean] We ain’t talked in five years plus Used to count months, now I lost that number Used to feel sick when your name came up Now it don’t land, it just sits there under You ain’t somebody I miss at night You somebody I finished in real life Not loud, not quick, not one big fight Just piece by piece till the room went quiet Had to grieve you with a pulse still in you That kind of loss got a strange-ass rhythm A funeral simple, they lower the middle Estrangement drag slow with the knife more hidden I did dark work when I wanted you back Had hope in the corner, had pride in the trap Kept putting you down like a weight from my back Till there wasn’t one piece left sitting in my lap People say “brother” like that means shelter Like blood can’t sour when the years turn selfish Like a shared last name makes a man worth helping Like absence don’t teach what love been selling [Pre-Hook — rap voice, rising] No holiday check No emergency call No saved-up speech No wound on the wall No old number No last resort You been checked out I closed the door [Hook — spoken chant, heavier drums] Already gone Been already gone I ain’t waiting I ain’t torn Already gone Been already gone Same bloodline Different door Already gone Been already gone You left first I just moved on [Verse 2 — harder, more bounce] When they ask if I got siblings I say I had one once They wait for the soft part I let silence punch Some losses don’t bleed Some losses bring peace World don’t know what to do with a man Who don’t perform grief I ain’t bitter, I ain’t pacing I ain’t charging old debt I just emptied out the space And I left with respect You can share blood and be foreign Share history, not present Be the brother that I had Not the one that I’m left with That ain’t cruelty, that’s training That’s years of not chasing That’s learning when love turns labor And labor turns breaking You chose distance I chose stillness You chose absence I chose witness I stopped making excuses For a man with choices Stopped hearing family In unavailable voices [Bridge — beat cuts, dry vocal] If you died tomorrow I don’t know if I’d cry I don’t know if I’d drive I don’t know what I’d try That line sounds cold But the cost was worse I had to let you go alive Just to stop carrying hurt [Speed Run Verse — controlled final statement, 8 bars] No black suit fantasy, no speech at the service No fake little tear just to make folks nervous I loved who you were, then I studied who surfaced The gap got wide and the silence got permanent I can’t keep dragging a name through my chest Can’t keep calling that damage respect Can’t keep building a bridge from regret When the other side left and the boards got wet You made walking away look normal I made not following formal That ain’t hate, that’s a boundary with armor That ain’t rage, that’s a man getting smarter Bloodline, dead line, flat tone, last look Old name, closed page, no hook, no push Already gone, already gone, no reach, no debt Brother I had, not the brother I get [Final Hook — full drums, low doubled punch-ins] Already gone Been already gone I ain’t waiting I ain’t torn Already gone Been already gone Same bloodline Different door Already gone Been already gone You left first I just moved on [Outro — 808 and synth only] Already gone Been already gone The brother I had Is the brother I had
