🎵 Don’t Reach for Me - Ephemeral Oblivion - When Almost Isn’t Enough

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Some goodbyes aren’t loud.
They don’t arrive with slammed doors or raised voices.
They happen quietly - when one person keeps reaching, and the other never fully arrives.

“Don’t Reach for Me” is about the moment restraint replaces hope.
Not anger. Not revenge.
Just the decision to stop standing in the space someone refuses to occupy.

This song isn’t about betrayal in the obvious sense.
It’s about emotional absence - choosing distance, distraction, or silence over presence.
About realizing that being almost chosen is still a form of being left.

Ephemeral Oblivion keeps the arrangement deliberately sparse:
intimate piano, restrained strings, and a controlled vocal that never begs.
The power here comes from what isn’t said - from the refusal to keep competing for someone who has already made their choice.

This isn’t a confrontation.
It’s closure without permission.

Sometimes the strongest boundary
is simply not reaching back.

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Thanks to the tools that made this possible:
🎤 Vocals & Music created with Suno
🎬 Edited in DaVinci Resolve
🎨 Visuals created with Stable Diffusion
🤝 Guidance and collaboration with ChatGPT

🎧 Recommended if you like: Evanescence (early), Chelsea Wolfe, dark alternative piano ballads
🎹 Style: Minimalist, piano-led, restrained and intimate
🎙️ Vocals: Controlled, emotional without pleading
✍️ Lyrics by: Brian C and ChatGPT

You show up like you never left,
Like nothing cracked, like nothing bent.
You say my name the way you did
Before it started meaning less.

You talk in circles, soft and thin,
Like staying close is trying enough.
But I can hear the distance now
In every almost, every shrug.

I learned to read the empty space
Between the words you wouldn’t say.
You weren’t lost. You weren’t unsure.
You were just already away.

Don’t reach for me
When you’re only halfway here.
Don’t say my name
If I disappear when you’re near.

I’m done waiting in the dark
For you to choose to mean it.
Don’t reach for me
If you don’t intend to stay.

I learned to lower every need,
Call it patience, call it care.
I stood still long enough
To make it look like I belonged there.

I kept the door unlocked for you,
You never had to force your way.
But access isn’t love
When presence keeps slipping away.

You held me like a habit kept,
Not something you were afraid to lose.
And I mistook your silence
For something I was meant to prove.

Don’t reach for me
When you’re split in two inside.
Don’t hold my hand
If you’re already saying goodbye.

I won’t compete with what you choose
To disappear into.
Don’t reach for me
If you won’t be true.

This isn’t anger.
This isn’t blame.
This is me learning
What love won’t sustain.

I didn’t leave when it was loud.
I left when nothing answered back.
There’s only so long
You can live inside the gaps.

Don’t reach for me
Like I’m still where you left me.
Don’t say my name
Like it still has somewhere to land.

I needed more than almost you,
More than what you could manage.
Don’t reach for me-
I already let go.

I already let go.

If you ever wonder where I went,
I didn’t vanish. I just learned
Not to stay
Where I wasn’t chosen.