Can Bygones Be Bygones?

[Acoustic guitar solo]

[Verse 1]

The old road fades behind me, but I still hear the sound,

Footsteps echo softly, though no one’s around.

A shadow in the rearview, a voice lost in the wind,

Is it gone if it still lingers? Or does it just pretend?

[Chorus]

Can bygones be bygones, or do they follow close behind?

Do they wait in quiet corners, do they whisper in your mind?

If they vanish in the daylight, why return when night is long?

Can bygones be bygones, or have they been here all along?

[Acoustic guitar solo]

[Verse 2]

A name I swore I buried still slips into my dreams,

An echo in my laughter, a tear behind the seams.

If time’s a healer, tell me, why do old wounds sting anew?

Do the years erase the lessons, or just write them over you?

[Chorus]

Can bygones be bygones, or do they follow close behind?

Do they wait in quiet corners, do they whisper in your mind?

If they vanish in the daylight, why return when night is long?

Can bygones be bygones, or have they been here all along?

[Acoustic guitar solo]

[Verse 3]

A letter never opened, a door that won’t unlock,

The things we leave unspoken, do they ever leave the clock?

If silence is an answer, does it quiet what we’ve lost?

Or do the words we never utter still come haunting like a ghost?

[Bridge – Intensifying, Emotional Peak]

If you turn and face the past, does it finally walk away?

Or does it stand there like a mirror, showing all you’ve tried to change?

If we say we’ve made our peace, does the heart believe the sound?

Or does it wait for proof in echoes, in the spaces all around?

[Chorus – Final, More Emphatic, Climactic]

Can bygones be bygones, or do they follow close behind?

Do they wait in quiet corners, do they whisper in your mind?

If they vanish in the daylight, why return when night is long?

Can bygones be bygones, or have they been here all along?

[Acoustic guitar solo]

[Outro – Soft, Reflective, Fading]

The old road fades behind me, but I still hear the sound...

A shadow in the rearview, still asking to be found.

[Acoustic guitar solo - slow fade out]

-- Pradeep K (Prady)

D minor, Soft rock, acoustic guitar, melancholic, powerful, introspective, male vocals, rich baritone.

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D minor, Soft rock, acoustic guitar, melancholic, powerful, introspective, female vocals, ethereal.