[Intro]
Three voices fade through the rain, a city sighs in gray
Khalid, Billy, Luidi, a memory in the breaking day
[Verse 1: Khalid-like]
City lights blur, I’m counting all our could-have-beens
Soft hands, soft lies, the night wore out our dreams
If you were here, the street would hum a gentler tune
But you’re a shadow in the corner of a lonely room
[Chorus: Billy-like]
Tell me why the heart keeps aching when the dawn won’t break
Every echo in the hallway sounds like your name
I reach for something real, but it slips away again
In the quiet between goodbye and when
[Verse 2: Luidi-like]
A young man walks the avenue, pockets full of what-ifs
Promises we drew in chalk, now washed by distant ships
We traced our futures on a rain-slick windowpane
Now I’m listening for your voice in the storm’s refrain
[Chorus: Khalid and Billy harmonizing]
Tell me why the heart keeps aching when the dawn won’t break
Every echo in the hallway sounds like your name
I reach for something real, but it slips away again
In the quiet between goodbye and when
[Bridge: Luidi-like]
If goodbye is a road, I’d walk it slowly, slow and true
Maybe someday the rain will clear and I’ll see you through
[Chorus: Khalid, Billy, and Luidi together]
Tell me why the heart keeps aching when the dawn won’t break
Every echo in the hallway sounds like your name
I reach for something real, but it slips away again
In the quiet between goodbye and when
[Outro]
We stay, we fade, we keep the at-now and then
A sad harmony that lingers as the streetlights bend
