### TITLE: **"Save Me a Seat"**
**[Intro]**
Yeah...
Some days I'm good.
Then something happens
and I'm right back there.
I still talk to you.
I don't know if you hear me.
**[Chorus]**
Save me a seat
wherever you are.
I still look for your name
when I'm scrolling too far.
I got people around me,
still don't feel complete.
If there's somewhere after this...
brother,
save me a seat.
Save me a seat.
Yeah.
Save me a seat.
I got everything moving...
but part of me
never left that week.
**[Verse 1]**
Your shoes were still there
the last time I went home.
Mama moved almost everything.
She couldn't move those.
I didn't say nothing.
Just stood by the door.
Funny what can break you
when you've survived so much more.
I found an old video.
You laughing at me.
Couldn't even hear the joke.
Didn't matter to me.
I played it again.
Then again.
Then I locked my phone
like I was embarrassed to grieve.
People tell me:
“Keep your head up.”
I know they mean well.
But they go home
and I go back through hell.
'Cause they remember you sometimes.
I remember you everywhere.
Empty passenger seat...
I still move my jacket
like you're sitting there.
**[Chorus]**
Save me a seat
wherever you are.
I still look for your name
when I'm scrolling too far.
I got people around me,
still don't feel complete.
If there's somewhere after this...
brother,
save me a seat.
Save me a seat.
Yeah.
Save me a seat.
I got everything moving...
but part of me
never left that week.
**[Verse 2]**
We used to talk big
when we didn't have much.
Said when one of us made it
both of us would come up.
Now something good happens
and my first thought is you.
I reach for my phone...
then remember
what I can't do.
That's the part nobody tells you.
It ain't only missing a face.
It's losing the person
you would've told everything to first place.
New song?
You.
Bad day?
You.
Somebody got me mad?
You.
Now I got a hundred contacts
and don't know who to call.
That's crazy.
I used to think growing up
meant losing the old days.
Never knew somebody could leave
and the old days would stay.
I hear your voice sometimes
inside things I say.
Catch myself using your words.
Man...
I guess that's one way
you never went away.
**[Pre-Chorus]**
And I know...
I know life keeps moving.
But nobody asked me
if I was ready to move with it.
**[Chorus]**
Save me a seat
wherever you are.
I still look for your name
when I'm scrolling too far.
I got people around me,
still don't feel complete.
If there's somewhere after this...
brother,
save me a seat.
Save me a seat.
Yeah.
Save me a seat.
I'm learning how to live...
I just hate
you ain't here to see.
**[Verse 3]**
Mama looks stronger now.
That's what people say.
I know that look in her eyes.
She just learned how to hide pain.
Sometimes we talk about you.
Sometimes nobody can.
Your name gets halfway out
then the whole room goes quiet again.
I used to hate that silence.
Now I let it stay.
Maybe love gets real loud
when there's nothing left to say.
I ain't asking why anymore.
That question wore me thin.
There ain't an answer in this world
that brings you back again.
So I'm trying something different.
Trying to live enough for two.
Take the trip.
Make the call.
Do the things we said we'd do.
And if I ever get somewhere
we used to dream we'd reach...
I'll leave a little room beside me.
Like you're still in the seat.
**[Bridge]**
**[Drums fade away]**
Sometimes I get mad at you.
I know that makes no sense.
**[Piano and distant choir]**
Like you chose to leave me here
with all these memories to carry.
Then I feel bad for being mad.
Then I laugh...
'cause you'd probably tell me:
“Man, shut up.”
**[Voice cracks]**
I miss that.
I miss stupid things.
I miss everything.
**[808 slowly returns]**
So if you can hear me...
just know I'm still trying.
**[Final Chorus]**
Save me a seat
wherever you are.
When this life gets heavy,
I still talk to the stars.
I got people who love me.
I got reasons to breathe.
But there'll always be a place
only you could ever reach.
Save me a seat.
Brother,
save me a seat.
I ain't coming anytime soon...
I got things here
I still gotta complete.
But when my road is finished,
if there's somewhere we meet...
don't make me look for you.
Just...
save me a seat.
**[Outro]**
I still talk to you.
Maybe that's enough.
For now.
