The Half Left Behind

Tempo: 69 | Time: 4/4 

Intro 
Bb F Gm Eb 


[Verso 1]
 
    Bb                            F 
The chair across the table, empty still 
     Gm                                  Eb 
Your cup is where I left it for you to fill 
     Bb                                F 
The walls still hold the echo of your name 
               Gm      Eb 
And nothing in this house 
              Bb   F 
will feel the same 
   Bb                              F 
I trace the quiet outlines of our days 
   Gm                            Eb 
In photographs that time cannot erase 
     Bb                               F 
The night is long, it never seems to end 
           Cm 
I speak to you, 
                     Bb 
but silence answers then 
  Bb                              F 
Every step feels heavier than before 
                                 Gm 
Every key still trembles in the door 
                                  Eb 
I reach for you in habits I can't break 
                                    F 
A life half- lived is all I seem to make 
 


[Refrão]
 
                Bb 
And I call your name into the dark 
                F 
But the silence tears my world apart 
         Gm 
How do I breathe when you're not here? 
         Eb 
How do I live with all this fear? 
             Bb 
Every memory cuts like a knife 
             F 
You were the rhythm of my life 
          Gm 
Now every second pulls me through 
Eb                F          Bb 
A world that only aches for you 

{Instrumental} 
F Gm Eb 
 


[Verso 2]
 
             Bb 
The mornings come but feel the same 
         F 
A hollow light, a borrowed flame 
           Gm 
I walk the roads we used to know 
            Eb 
But I don't know where I should go 
                Bb 
Tell me, how do I begin again? 
         F 
Where do broken pieces mend? 
             Gm 
If love like ours could disappear 
               Eb                   F 
What's left to hold? What's left to fear? 
 


[Refrão]
 
               Bb 
I'm still with you in every breath you take 
         F 
In every dawn, in every choice you make 
      Gm 
Don't lose yourself inside the pain 
     Eb 
Live for the love that will remain 
         Bb 
You're not alone, I'm in your heart 
            F 
We're never truly torn apart 
           Gm 
So take my life and find your way 
         Eb          Bb 
I'm with you every day 
 


[Ponte]
 
                        F 
So tell me, how do I go on 
                            Gm 
When half of me is already gone? 
                           Eb 
How do I stand? How do I fight 
                                     Bb 
Through endless days and sleepless nights? 
                                 F 
But if your voice still calls my name 
                       Gm 
Inside the echo of the pain 
                          Eb 
Then maybe I can learn to see 
                    F            Bb 
 A life you'd still want Left in me 

{verse 3} 
Bb 
I feel you in the quiet air 
   F                               Gm 
In softened light that finds me there 
Gm 
You're not a ghost I leave behind 
    Eb                            Bb 
You are the strength I learn to find 
Bb 
And though the road is torn and wide 
     F                       Gm 
I'll carry you with every stride 
                               Eb 
Not just the loss, not just goodbye 
                               Bb 
But all the love that will not die 
 

[Refrão]
 
                         F 
So I will live the way we dreamed 
              Gm            Eb 
Through every scar, through everything 
                Bb             F 
I'll speak your name I'll keep it true 
         Gm                Eb 
In every life I built from you 
              Bb                 F 
The chair may stay for silence too 
                Gm             Eb 
But I will fill this world for you 
              Gm         F           Bb 
Not just with grief, but love made new 
 

Outro 
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