[Verse 1]

I found a friendship bracelet in a shoebox under the bed

The colors are faded, but the words stay stuck in my head

"Best friends forever" in plastic beads and cheap twine

Back when your kitchen table felt more like it was mine.

We had a shorthand language, a telepathy of the soul

You were the missing pieces that made my messy world whole.

I know your coffee order and the way you hide your face when you cry

I know the names of the boys who made you feel like you couldn't fly.

But now I’m scrolling through a timeline, seeing faces I don’t recognize

Wondering when the "we" became a "you" and a "me" in disguise.

[Pre-Chorus]

And it’s not like a breakup where you get to scream and throw things down

There’s no funeral for the 'almost' and no formal exit from this town.

Just a slow-motion sunset, a long, quiet, agonizing fade

And the heavy, cold shadow of every single promise we made.

[Chorus]

Now you’re just a ghost in a thrift-store coat

A half-finished letter that I never quite wrote.

We’re strangers with a decade of secrets in the bank

Watching our ship go down while we both just watched it sink.

It’s a different kind of heartbreak, one they don’t write the hits about

When the fire doesn't explode, it just slowly flickers out.

I’m haunted by the versions of us that used to exist

The ghost of a friendship I didn't know I'd miss.

[Verse 2]

I saw your mom at the market, she looked me right in the eye

She asked how my life was, and I had to fashion a polite lie.

I didn’t mention your name, and she didn’t mention it too

But the air felt like iron between the "me" and the "you."

Are you still staying up too late? Do you still hate the sound of the rain?

Or did you rewrite your chapters just to erase all of our shared pain?

I kept the books that you lent me, they’re gathering dust on the shelf

Like a version of you that I’ve kept all for myself.

We used to be the main characters, now we’re just background noise

In a world that took away all of our girlhood joys.

[Pre-Chorus]

Because there’s no dramatic ending, no glass shattered on the floor

Just the hollow sound of silence where there used to be an open door.

Just a shift in the weather, a sudden change in the tide

And nowhere left for all of these memories to hide.

[Chorus]

Now you’re just a ghost in a thrift-store coat

A half-finished letter that I never quite wrote.

We’re strangers with a decade of secrets in the bank

Watching our ship go down while we both just watched it sink.

It’s a different kind of heartbreak, one they don’t write the hits about

When the fire doesn't explode, it just slowly flickers out.

I’m haunted by the versions of us that used to exist

The ghost of a friendship I didn't know I'd miss.

[Bridge]

Was it something I said? Or the thousand things I didn't say?

Did we just drift apart like continents on display?

I want to call you and tell you that I finally saw that movie we liked

But I’m scared that the bridge between us has finally been spiked.

Is it weird that I’m mourning someone who’s still alive and well?

Living in a story that I’m no longer allowed to tell?

We were supposed to be the "always," the "no matter what"

Now I’m just a visitor in a life that I’ve been shut out of.

[Chorus]

Yeah, you’re just a ghost in a thrift-store coat

A half-finished letter that I never quite wrote.

We’re strangers with a decade of secrets in the bank

Watching our ship go down while we both just watched it sink.

It’s a different kind of heartbreak, one they don’t write the hits about

When the fire doesn't explode, it just slowly flickers out.

I’m haunted by the versions of us that used to exist

The ghost of a friendship I didn't know I'd miss.

[Outro]

[A single piano note repeats]

You’re just a ghost now.

Walking through the rooms of my mind.

A "Happy Birthday" text I’ll never have the nerve to send.

The quietest end to a best friend.

I didn't know I'd miss it.

I didn't know I'd miss the ghost of us.

[Fade out]