Still Living In Me
v4
@Kevin Heffernan
Still Living In Me
v4
@Kevin Heffernan
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I still set your place at the table
Talk to your chair like you might walk in
Every cup in this house remembers your fingerprints
Every night
I drink from them again
Your sweater still sleeps on my shoulder
Threadbare
But I wear it like a shield
Your name is a song that my silence keeps humming
Soft under everything I feel
Love didn’t leave when you did
It lingers in the doorway
Watching me breathe
Every tear just waters what we planted
Hurts to touch
But I can’t cut down this tree
So I hold what’s left like a photograph fading
Edges gone
But your eyes stay clear
If letting go means losing the last of your echo
I’d rather ache than not have you here
I still set your place at the table
Talk to your chair like you might walk in
Every cup in this house remembers your fingerprints
Every night
I drink from them again
Your sweater still sleeps on my shoulder
Threadbare
But I wear it like a shield
Your name is a song that my silence keeps humming
Soft under everything I feel
Love didn’t leave when you did
It lingers in the doorway
Watching me breathe
Every tear just waters what we planted
Hurts to touch
But I can’t cut down this tree
So I hold what’s left like a photograph fading
Edges gone
But your eyes stay clear
If letting go means losing the last of your echo
I’d rather ache than not have you here
Style of Music
Slow-burning soulful R&B, male vocals. Warm Rhodes chords and subtle guitar licks over deep, round bass and brushed drums. Verse starts intimate and close-mic’d, growing into stacked harmonies and airy reverb on key phrases. Gentle organ swells in later lines, leaving pockets of silence for emotional pauses and breathy ad-libs., emotional, soulful, poetic, r&b
