Moving Through the Blue

[Intro — Instrumental] [No vocals] [Verse 1 — low male baritone, intimate and restrained] Your coat is still behind the door, One sleeve curled against the floor. The kettle cooled beside the sink, You left before I learned to blink. [Pre-Chorus — quiet, rising] I kept the last thing that you said, A half-lit sentence in my head. It loses shape, it changes tune, But somehow brings me back to you. [Chorus — restrained, haunting] And I keep moving through the blue, Past every place that isn't yoooou..! The night goes thin, the hours fray..! I watch another dawn give way..! [Instrumental] [Verse 2 — slightly more distant] The elevator skips a floor, Its silver numbers count no more. A taxi burns beneath the rain, Then turns the corner out again. [Pre-Chorus] I trace the cracks across the glass, As if they know where you have passed. They cross, divide, then disappear, Like all the things I needed here. [Chorus — layered, still restrained] And I keep moving through the blue, Past every place that isn't you..! The night goes thin, the hours fraaay..! I watch another dawn give way..! [Bridge — nearly whispered, sparse instrumentation] If you were here, I'd ask you why Some things can fade And never die. [Bridge Instrumental] [Haunting delayed pluck] [Minimal drums] [Long reverb tail] [Gradual return of bass] [Final Chorus — fuller vocal layers] I keep moving through the blue, With all the things I couldn't lose. The morning comes, the windows shine, Your absence keeps its shape in mine. [Outro — fragmented, fading] (shape in mine...!) [Instrumental Outro] [Lead dissolves into delay] [Deep bass decay] [Long dark reverb tail]