Story Behind The Song

Written for a sync brief requesting music that captures "the weight of loss" and "the quiet intensity of grief" with "emotional authenticity rather than dramatics." The song focuses on the months-after grief that rarely gets depicted - when the casseroles stop coming and the phone stops ringing, but the missing doesn't fade. Every object in the house becomes a small monument. The bridge line about neighbors captures a universal but underwritten truth: the world returns to normal while the griever is still trying to form an answer to "how are you?"

Song Description

A restrained, piano-driven folk ballad exploring the long tail of grief. The narrator moves through a house filled with traces of someone gone - a jacket on a chair, glasses by the bed, a book left mid-chapter. The chorus centers on the paradox of absence: finding someone everywhere precisely because they're nowhere. The bridge addresses the social abandonment of grief -neighbors stop asking, but the ache remains. Written for sync placement in memorial scenes, end-of-life content, and reflective character moments. Comparable to Ed Sheeran's "Supermarket Flowers" in tone and function.

Lyrics

[VERSE 1]
Your jacket's on the chair still
Your glasses by the bed
The book you left on chapter ten
I can't put away just yet

[CHORUS]
In the quiet of the house
In the places you would be
I keep finding you
In the space you left for me

[VERSE 2]
Found your handwriting this morning
On a list stuck to the door
Little things you meant to finish
Now the list just stays undone

[CHORUS]
In the quiet of the house
In the places you would be
I keep finding you
In the space you left for me

[BRIDGE]
I thought that I'd stop looking
I thought the missing would fade
But the neighbors stopped asking how I am
And I still don't have an answer

[FINAL CHORUS]
In the quiet of the house
In the places you would be
I keep finding you
In the space you left for me