YOU AIN'T HERE [Intro — soft Rhodes, tape hiss, distant traffic] Yeah... Sydney still moving. Funny how everything keeps going. Even when you don't. [Verse 1] Two a.m. light through the blinds Your side cold, but I still look twice Got your name sitting deep in my mind I don't call, but I think 'bout it all the time Used to pull up, you were waiting downstairs Hair tied back, little smoke in the air Now I take that same road nowhere And every red light got me wishing you were there I got better I got things done I fixed what I said I'd fix But you ain't here to see none of it So tell me what the point of this is You said I took too long Maybe you're right But I thought love had room for a bad few nights Thought you'd stay while I found my feet Didn't know you were already leaving me [Pre-Chorus] And I ain't asking you to save me I just thought you'd stand beside me Now the whole city's loud But somehow I hear nothing [Chorus] You ain't here You ain't here That's the part I can't get past You ain't here You ain't here How'd forever disappear that fast? I can drive all night I can drown in lights I can tell myself I'm doing alright But when everything clears You ain't here You ain't here [Post-Chorus] No, you ain't here No, you ain't here Whole room full of memories But you ain't here [Verse 2] Could find somebody new by midnight Pretty face, good drink, low light But I don't want fake conversation When I'm still stuck on our last night Everybody says give it time Like time explains why you changed your mind Like another month makes silence make sense When I still don't know where the ending went No goodbye I could hold onto No last kiss saying we're really through Just a door closing somewhere out of view And me standing here still talking to you In my head Yeah, that's fucked up I know But I loved what we had And I loved where I thought we'd go Maybe that's what I'm mourning most Not your body Not your clothes It's the future that disappeared When you became a ghost [Pre-Chorus] And I ain't asking you to save me I just thought you'd stand beside me Now the whole city's loud But somehow I hear nothing [Chorus] You ain't here You ain't here That's the part I can't get past You ain't here You ain't here How'd forever disappear that fast? I can drive all night I can drown in lights I can tell myself I'm doing alright But when everything clears You ain't here You ain't here [Bridge — smooth R&B vocal, beat almost gone] Was I too much? Was I too late? Was there something you never could say? Did you love me? Did that change? Did you already know you'd walk away? I keep asking questions You don't answer anymore So maybe silence is the answer I've been scared of listening for [Final Chorus — fuller harmonies] You ain't here You ain't here And maybe that's all I need to know You ain't here You ain't here Even if I never know why you chose to go I can heal with time I can rebuild mine I can learn to live another kind of life But tonight it still hurts 'Cause you ain't here You ain't here [Outro] No big ending No final words Just me... And a city that keeps moving. Without you.
