**Verse 1** Your coat is still hanging where you left it last night, your glass is on the table, everything looks right. But something in the room has shifted, something I can't rearrange. You answer every question like you're speaking from a train. You haven't crossed the doorway, you haven't said goodbye, but there's a different kind of leaving already in your eyes. **Pre-Chorus** Don't disappear while you're standing next to me. Don't make distance out of what I still can see. **Chorus** While you're still here, say what silence won't say. While you're still here, don't fade a little more each day. I can live with an ending, I can learn to let it be— but don't leave me with a memory while you're standing next to me. While you're still here. **Verse 2** You move around the evening like a guest who's missed her train, touching familiar objects as if learning them again. There's kindness in your distance, which somehow makes it worse. Every careful little sentence sounds rehearsed before it hurts. I know love isn't ownership, I know no one has to stay. But there's something almost cruel in disappearing by degrees this way. **Pre-Chorus** If you're going, don't turn absence into art. Don't leave slowly just to spare somebody's heart. **Chorus** While you're still here, say what silence won't say. While you're still here, don't fade a little more each day. I can live with an ending, I can learn to let it be— but don't leave me with a memory while you're standing next to me. While you're still here. **Verse 3** Maybe nothing broke between us. Maybe nothing has to break. Some things simply lose their gravity before we're wide awake. And maybe by tomorrow your key won't fit this place. Tonight I only ask you not to leave before you leave. **Extended Pre-Chorus** If you're going, look me in the eye. If it's over, let the ending be alive. Don't turn softly into someone I once knew. Let me lose you only when I've really lost you. **Final Chorus** While you're still here, say what silence won't say. While you're still here, don't fade a little more each day. I can live with an ending, I can carry what it means— but don't turn into yesterday while you're standing next to me. While you're still here. **Outro / Fade** While you're still here... don't become someone I remember. Not yet. Not while you're still here.
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