Like A Shadow, I'm Always In The Dark

Lyrics

[Verse 1 - sparse piano, distant reverb, intimate aching vocal]
You did it again tonight,
like a shadow slipping out of sight,
and every time I turn around
you’re somewhere else, not here, not now.

Most nights I wake up to the cold
of empty space where your hand should hold,
and I lie there listening to the dark
as if it might explain your heart.

[Pre-Chorus - tension rising, soft drums entering, layered harmonies]
It’s never just a one-time thing,
it’s a pattern wearing your name on me,
and I’ve been trying not to see
what keeps repeating in front of me.

[Chorus - full band, emotional lift, soaring vocal]
It’s not a coincidence, no,
when I’m out and you’re inside, somehow you know
how to vanish when I need you most,
then reappear but I’m still alone.
You can say it’s random, but I know
you’ve been predictable all along,
and tonight you just proved me right again,
proved me right again.

[Verse 2 - stripped beat, low bass, sharper vocal delivery]
I’ve been too random, too hard to trace,
but you move like you rehearsed your escape,
always outside when I’m waiting in,
always inside when I’m out again.

And that’s the part that cuts so deep,
how you line up every absence perfectly,
like you know exactly where I’ll be
to miss you more than you miss me.

[Pre-Chorus - building with harmonies, drums swelling]
So don’t tell me I’m imagining,
don’t tell me this is nothing,
when every time the night falls down
you make yourself impossible to find.

[Chorus - bigger, more urgent, stacked vocals]
It’s not a coincidence, no,
when I’m out and you’re inside, somehow you know
how to vanish when I need you most,
then reappear but I’m still alone.
You can say it’s random, but I know
you’ve been predictable all along,
and tonight you just proved me right again,
proved me right again.

[Bridge - piano and vocal only, raw and vulnerable]
Maybe you don’t even mean to hurt me,
but intention doesn’t have to scream to be
the reason I’m still here in the dark
with a thousand questions in my heart.

And if I’m being honest,
I don’t think you’re lost,
I think you know exactly what this costs.

[Final Chorus - explosive full production, harmony stack, emotional peak]
It’s not a coincidence, no,
when I’m out and you’re inside, somehow you know
how to vanish when I need you most,
then reappear but I’m still alone.
You can say it’s random, but I know
you’ve been predictable all along,
and tonight you just proved me right again,
proved me right again.

[Outro - fading keys, airy reverb, resigned whisper vocal]
You did it again tonight...
and I was alone again.