[Verse 1: Male]
I still see the corner of your map folded into a square,
The place we swore we'd start from — left in a drawer, somewhere.
I left my keys in the bowl you kept for broken things,
I watch them catch the light like the small regret it brings.
[Pre-Chorus: Male]
I trace the coffee ring you never found in the morning haze,
Replay the last small fight — how I learned to walk away.
[Verse 2: Female]
The kitchen smells of rain and the denim of your old coat,
There’s salt on my thumb from the letter I never wrote.
Your laugh is an echo in the tile, a rhythm out of time,
I fold my palm around the space where your fingers used to find.
[Pre-Chorus: Female]
I keep the Polaroid we tore when we ran out of words,
I press it to the window — it fogs with everything we were.
[Chorus: Both — call and answer]
Male: Echoes of our goodbye.
Female (finishing): The chipped blue mug still says your name.
Both: Echoes of our goodbye — the porch swing remembers our frame.
Male: Echoes of our goodbye.
Female (soft): The streetlight found the place you used to stand.
Both: Echoes of our goodbye — we learn to hold the empty hand.
[Verse 3: Male]
I remember the train tickets crumpled in my back pocket,
I remember how I laughed to hide the crack in what I offered.
I watched the light on Tuesday warm the mattress where you slept,
I left the window open like the promise I never kept.
[Verse 4: Female]
I remember the sound of your keys like a clock that never wound,
The music from the radio, the way the curtains found the ground.
I pressed the receipt you kept — the corner says our date and time,
I learned to fold it smaller, so it wouldn't fill my mind.
[Pre-Chorus: Both — overlapping]
Male: I wanted more than I could fold into my hands.
Female: I wanted less than the silence that expanded.
Both (quiet): We held the space between us like a map that burns at both ends.
[Bridge: Male then Female then Both overlapping]
Male (confession): I took the last umbrella and the last honest line,
I hid the key under the plant, told myself you'd be fine.
Female (turning): I kept the lighter you bent when you learned my name,
I lit a match against the dark and watched you go like flame.
Both (together, layered):
If I say sorry, will the echoes learn to change?
If I say it's over, will the silence rearrange?
Male (soft): I should've asked you to stay.
Female (soft): I should've said I'd wait.
Both (build): We traded every maybe for a quiet that won't break.
[Final Chorus: Both — intimate then full harmonies]
Male: Echoes of our goodbye.
Female (answer, close harmony): Echoes of our goodbye.
Both (lift): The chipped blue mug still says your name in the light.
Male (call): Echoes of our goodbye.
Female (finish, with a breath): The porch swing keeps the rhythm of our night.
Both (final): Echoes of our goodbye — we learn to carry the small, soft pain.
[Outro: Both, very quiet]
Echoes fade into the rooms we used to fill,
We keep the little pieces — the quiet, and the will
