I remember an ordinary morning… Still do. I remember an ordinary morning Mom's voice shaking on the phone She trembled like the dead of winter And I felt my whole world break alone I was fifteen, give or take Too young to understand what death meant Too old to cry without a filter So I cried by myself, outside, bent We were writing without knowing A piece of story, just us two We believed in time, in hoping Now I close my eyes and I'm back with you I hear you in the evening wind In the smell of coffee in the morning light You slipped into my memory Like your story never had an end in sight That's how I understood it clear That real goodbyes are never written down We always think there's time still here That the ones we love will still be around Family dinners aren't the same Your chair is there but you're not in it We still laugh, we still remain But happiness looks different since That last Christmas around the table The smell of dinner, lights all strung We thought that we were untouchable Didn't know it'd be the last one, young I hear you in the evening wind In the smell of coffee in the morning light You slipped into my memory Like your story never had an end in sight That's how I understood it clear That last times we never see them coming We always think there's time still here That the ones we love stay — always running There are mornings I don't know how To start the day without you in it I look for a sign, I look for a sound But silence gets the final minute You never saw the man I've become The choices that I made, the mistakes too I wish so bad you could've seen it done That you'd be proud of who I grew into I love you, that's the thing I kept too long Inside my chest, on repeat, unsaid It plays on loop my whole life long Like a chorus sung inside my head You left too soon, so fast, unplanned Before we had the time to write it right But you still live here, close at hand In memories that won't leave overnight That's how I understood it clear That you gave me everything, no sound at all That who you were is who I am right here And nothing's ever gonna make that fall I hear you in the wind I see you in the sky You changed your shape But you're still here… Still here… Still here… Always.
