[Intro — Soft Synth Pad, Distant Pulse, No Vocals] [Instrumental — Slow atmospheric build, 8 bars] [Verse 1] It's 2 AM and you're just waking up I'm pouring coffee in a different cup The sun is rising where you'll never see The way it spills across the empty side of me We talk in whispers through a broken line Your voice arrives a second after mine And every word we say gets lost halfway Between the night I'm in and your new day [Pre-Chorus] I keep your photo face-down on the shelf 'Cause looking at it only hurts myself I know your hands but I forgot their weight I'm learning how to love someone too late [Chorus] I'm half a world away from where you are Still reaching for a hand across the dark I can hear your heartbeat in the static of the phone But I'm lying in this bed alone Half a world away, half a world away And I'd cross every ocean just to stay [Instrumental Interlude — No Vocals] [Lead Electric Guitar Solo — Crying, vocal-like tone, expressive string bends and long sustained notes, the guitar "sings" the longing the singer cannot voice, exposed and front-and-centre over shimmering synth pads and a soft pulse, no drums, 16 bars, no singing, humming, or vocalizations] [Verse 2] I saved a seat for you at someone's wedding Watched the bride and felt my own heart spreading Thin across the distance like a thread That pulls me toward a life we never had I know the shape of every hour without you The way the silence fills a room I knew I've memorized the ceiling in the dark And counted all the miles between our hearts [Pre-Chorus] I keep your photo face-down on the shelf 'Cause looking at it only hurts myself I know your hands but I forgot their weight I'm learning how to love someone too late [Chorus] I'm half a world away from where you are Still reaching for a hand across the dark I can hear your heartbeat in the static of the phone But I'm lying in this bed alone Half a world away, half a world away And I'd cross every ocean just to stay [Instrumental Interlude — No Vocals] [Lead Electric Guitar Solo — Crying, vocal-like tone, answering the chorus with its own melodic line, escalating bends and vibrato, then falling into quiet resignation, 12 bars, no vocals of any kind] [Bridge — Stripped, Intimate, No Drums] Maybe someday we'll be in the same room And I won't know what to say Maybe someday I'll stop measuring the distance In the number of the days [Final Chorus — Full Arrangement, Soaring] I'm half a world away from where you are Still reaching for a hand across the dark I can hear your heartbeat in the static of the phone But I'm lying in this bed alone Half a world away, half a world away I'm half a world away And I'd cross every ocean just to stay [Outro — Soft Synth Pad, Fading Pulse, No Vocals] [Lead Electric Guitar — Lone melodic fragment, distant and reverb-drenched, slow fade to silence]
