[Intro — breathy, close-mic] Why does life... feel so unfair to me? [Rhodes — 4 bars] [Verse 1 — husky, behind the beat] Just when I found the connection my heart had been searching for... Why does it have to hurt this much? Could I not simply be your friend... [soft breath] and love you quietly from a distance? Without asking for anything... without needing you to be mine. [Pre-Chorus — smoky, fragile] I thought I had found somewhere my heart could rest... [soft vocal crack] Instead... something inside me broke again. [whisper double] broke again... [Chorus — intimate, restrained] The feelings I tried to hide fell through my hands... Like something beautiful I could never keep. My laughter went quiet, my smile disappeared... And somehow you're still the closest thing to home. [soft harmony] So close... [breathy pause] Yet so far from me. [Post-Chorus — whispered] From a distance... I still feel you. [Rhodes — 2 bars] [Verse 2 — smoky, slightly slurred] And I keep asking myself... How could something that felt so warm leave such a cold emptiness behind? [small vocal crack] I never asked for forever... I only wanted a place beside you... Even if I had to love you from a distance. [Pre-Chorus — closer, vulnerable] Could I not simply stay... without asking you to stay? Could I love what we found without trying to make it mine? [drums cut] [1 bar silence] [Chorus — deeper, restrained] The feelings I tried to hide fell through my hands... Like something beautiful I could never keep. My laughter went quiet, my smile disappeared... And somehow you're still the closest thing to home. [soft female harmony] So close... Yet so far from me. [Instrumental — Rhodes + brushed drums — 4 bars] [Bridge — almost spoken, intoxicated] Perhaps this is the cruelest part... To find someone who feels like home... [long breath] and still have to love them from the other side of the door. [whisper double] other side... [Final Chorus — fuller, smoky, quietly powerful] You were never mine to keep, but somehow you feel like home... And that's the cruelest part— to love you from a distance. [soft harmony] So close... [long breath] Yet so far from me. [Outro — barely above a whisper] Some hearts don't need to arrive... to find their way home. [soft delay] Their way home... [long smoky reverb tail]
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