You're Gone

Prelude

Twenty years of mornings lived beside you

Two coffee cups, one key beside the door

I never thought I'd sleep alone in our room

Verse 1

You stopped saying “I love you” months before you left

Started coming home later every night

I asked if there was someone else you loved

You kissed my forehead and said I was alright

Pre-Chorus

But I could feel you slipping out of my hands

While I was still making our forever plans

Chorus

When the door closes, it's more than wood and steel

It's the home we built and everything we used to feel

It's your shoes gone missing from beside our bed

It's waking up and reaching for you instead

When the door closes, I finally know you're gone

Post-Chorus

Your key was on the table, your suitcase by the stairs

Twenty years disappeared between the silence and the tears

Verse 2

You left the wedding picture hanging in the hall

The one where you promised you'd grow old with me

I found your note beside the bathroom wall

Saying, “I'm sorry, but this isn't where I want to be”

Pre-Chorus

I read those words until the paper blurred

Trying to find the meaning behind every word

Chorus

When the door closes, it's more than wood and steel

It's the home we built and everything we used to feel

It's your shoes gone missing from beside our bed

It's waking up and reaching for you instead

When the door closes, I finally know you're gone

Post-Chorus

Your side of the closet hangs empty and bare

And I'm still finding pieces of you everywhere

Bridge

You weren't just my lover, you were my family

The one I called when something went wrong

You knew every scar and every part of me

And somehow we became strangers before you were gone

Guitar Solo

Verse 3

I kept your birthday circled on the calendar

For weeks before I realized you wouldn't come

I almost bought the bottle of your favorite wine

Then remembered you had taken all of yours

Pre-Chorus

I spent so long trying to save what we had

I forgot how lonely I'd become in that

Chorus

When the door closes, it's more than wood and steel

It's the home we built and everything we used to feel

It's your shoes gone missing from beside our bed

It's waking up and reaching for you instead

When the door closes, I finally know you're gone

Outro

Twenty years are gone, but I'm still here

I loved you once, and I won't erase that truth

But, when the door closes, I finally know you're gone

When the door closes, I finally know you're gone

I finally know you're gone, you're gone