[INTRO — 16 bars — deep sub-bass alone. Soft pad. A single piano key. She breathes. The night is quiet. But inside her — it's not.] [VERSE 1 — spoken-sung, low, tired, like a secret she kept for years] I see your face in every crowded room. I hear your voice in someone else's laugh. You smiled at me once — just once — and I built a home inside that half. [CHORUS — voice rises slightly. Still restrained. The truth, not the drama.] I never told you. I never said your name out loud. I just let you pass through me like rain through a broken cloud. [VERSE 2 — softer. More intimate. She is not crying. She is just — remembering.] You held the door. You called me "friend." You asked about my day. I answered with my eyes half-closed, too scared to look away. [CHORUS — a little fuller. Bass deeper. The weight of never speaking.] I never told you. I kept it in my chest like a stone. I loved you in the spaces between what was said and what I should have known. [BRIDGE — music drops to bass and voice. Almost spoken. The moment she finally understands.] And now you're gone. Not dead. Just — elsewhere. With someone who says things. And I — I am still here. Still holding the phantom of a feeling that never grew wings. But never died. [FINAL CHORUS — quiet. Not weak. Just — finished. Like a sigh after years of holding breath.] I never told you. And I never will. But you live in every song I write, every street I walk, every night I'm still. [OUTRO — bass fades. Piano one last note. Whisper.] I loved you. That's all. That's everything. [END]
