Dabda Lyrics

The air feels unchanged

Like nothing has been stolen

I set the table for two

Out of habit, I tell myself

Not out of need

Your chair still holds its silence

As if waiting for a body to fill it

It's just a pause, I think

Nothing ends without warning

I set the table, I leave the light

Pretend you'll walk through the door tonight

Denial is a friend, it whispers low

You're still here, it's just for show

But the sky didn't even flinch

The stars kept shining

As if they weren't complicit

In your vanishing

I scream at the clock

At the ticking that mocks me

At the bed too wide for sleep

How dare the world

Pretend it's whole

When I am missing you

I curse the stars, I scream at time

How dare they act like all is fine

Anger fuels but it never mends

Your absence laughs at the rage it lends

I count the nights backwards

Like unravelling a thread

What if I had held on tighter

Said one more word

Would time have bent its rules

If I had begged harder

I would trade my shadow, my name

The breath in my chest

To undo the empty space

You left behind.

I'd trade the clock, I'd give my soul

To bargain back what absence stole

A fool's deal with the hands of fate

But hope's the currency of the desperate state

Now the days melt

A blur of nothing

The sun rises

But I don't believe in it

Every step feels borrowed

Every sound too loud

Even the wind feels heavy

As if it carries the weight

Of your absence

The sun comes up, but I don't care

Depression sits in your empty chair

The world's too loud, the days too long

And absence hums it's endless song

You are gone, and yet you remain

In the echo of my voice

When I say your name

In the space between breaths

Where your memory hums

Loss doesn't heal; it reshapes

I carry you now

Like the shadow of a mountain

Always there

A presence of what once was

I set the table, but now I see

Acceptance grows like roots in me

Your absence carves what it won't erase

A shadowed shape, a sacred space

And maybe that's the truth of it

We don't lose

We just hold differently

I'll set the table for one

But leave the chair

Empty

Waiting

Waiting