[Intro] [Soft fingerpicked acoustic guitar, distant atmospheric piano, intimate breathy vocal] I’m getting good at being alright… At least, that’s what I tell myself. [Verse 1] I’ve started sleeping on my side again Stopped checking if you’ve called I’ve even taken down the photograph That used to face the wall I’m going out, I’m staying late I’m learning how to fill the space And everybody says I look so much better Like I finally escaped [Pre-Chorus] And I swear I’m getting somewhere I can almost see the light But there’s always something waiting Just to take me back in time [Chorus] I was doing fine, I was feeling alive I was making peace with the rest of my life I was learning how to breathe without you by my side Then I remember A street, a song, the way you smiled The way we talked for hours like we had all the time And suddenly I’m standing in that moment again Then I remember Then I remember [Verse 2] There’s a coffee shop I don’t walk past A song I skip before it starts And I still catch myself turning round When someone laughs the way you are It’s not that I want you back again Or that I’d change the way it ends It’s just that I miss the person I was Before we became strangers [Pre-Chorus] And I swear I’m getting somewhere I’ve got nothing left to prove But the smallest things can take me To a place I thought I knew [Chorus] I was doing fine, I was feeling alive I was making peace with the rest of my life I was learning how to breathe without you by my side Then I remember A street, a song, the way you smiled The way we talked for hours like we had all the time And suddenly I’m standing in that moment again Then I remember Then I remember [Bridge] [Drop to solo piano and vulnerable, almost breaking vocal] I don’t miss the waiting I don’t miss the tears I don’t miss the questions Or the wasted years But I miss the midnight conversations And the future we believed I don’t want the past to come back I just wish it wouldn’t leave [Build] [Gradually introduce strings, acoustic guitar and swelling drums] Maybe healing isn’t forgetting Maybe that’s not how it works Maybe some things stay forever Even when they hurt [Final Chorus] [Full emotional indie-ballad arrangement, soaring lead vocal, layered harmonies] I was doing fine, I was feeling alive I was finally making peace with my life I was learning how to breathe without you by my side Then I remember The nights, the dreams, the way you smiled The little things I haven’t thought about in a while And suddenly I’m missing someone I can’t get back Then I remember [Outro] [Everything falls away, leaving only piano and intimate vocals] I’m getting good at being alright… I think I’m getting better… Then I remember. [Soft instrumental ending]
