There's a space inside me that only echoes now Where I keep the sound of your laugh somehow I dust off old memories like photographs on a shelf Trying to remember your smile, but I can't by myself The air in here feels heavy with things we didn't say Moments caught right before they faded away They say time turns hurt into something beautiful to read But this just feels like digging for stars I'll never see Looking for a light that went out before I knew it's name In a world where then and now don't feel the same This missing you isn't soft, it's a pull I can't ignore A slow, heavy tide on memory's shore It doesn't cry, it just settles deep in my veins Saudade builds oceans out of old rains Making floods from a teardrop, making towers from a sigh From the ghost of a goodbye I never got to say goodbye I wear your absence like a cold, thin coat A change in pressure only my heart can note Some days it's just a scent that passes in the air A sweet, sad song that leaves me standing there Other days, it's the weather in my soul A winter inside me I can't control I've built so many bridges from the wood of maybe then But they lead to empty shores, again and again The map shows a place that disappeared without a trace Leaving nothing but the outline of your face This missing you isn't soft, it's a pull I can't ignore A slow, heavy tide on memory's shore It doesn't cry, it just settles deep in my veins Saudade builds oceans out of old rains Making floods from a teardrop, making towers from a sigh From the ghost of a goodbye I never got to say goodbye Are you the question or the answer that I can't hold? The destination and the story that went cold? I don't just miss you, I miss the way the light would change How ordinary things felt different, not so strange I miss the world we made just by being there Now it's a jewel too heavy to wear So let the rain play it's sad, soft tune Let this quiet, constant missing hum its old Moon I'll keep this quiet wreckage, hold each piece of what we had Because in the museum of almost, even missing, isn't bad