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Prompt:

Write a deeply emotional progressive acoustic song for 12-string guitar, using layered fingerpicking, pinch harmonics, and syncopated slap rhythms to mirror the feeling of time slipping unnoticed. The song should capture the weight of having been far away — physically, mentally — while something irreversible passed. Avoid listing small regrets; instead, focus on the vast, wordless grief of presence that never happened. Let the verses drift through disconnection, flashes of missed time, moments where something should have been said but wasn’t. The chorus should open into a still, aching space — not loud, but wide, unresolved, like realization echoing into emptiness. Let harmonic runs feel like thoughts returning too late. Convey heartbreak without stating it. The final line, “and now you’re gone,” should land like a quiet collapse — not as explanation, but as aftermath. Let the entire song feel like breath held too long, then finally let go.

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Description:

The image captures a man standing on a beach at sunset, holding a guitar and looking out into the ocean. The scene is set against a backdrop of a full moon, adding to the emotional depth of the image. The man's posture and the guitar he holds evoke a sense of longing and introspection, as if he is reflecting on missed opportunities or lost moments in time. The combination of the ocean, the moon, and the man's contemplative expression creates a powerful and evocative scene that resonates with the themes of the original prompt.

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Lyrics:

Title: And Now You're Gone
Tags: Progressive, Emotional, Acoustic Guitar, Fingerstyle Guitar, Ethereal

[Verse 1]
Time was slipping — a soft retreat
Through half-closed blinds and silent streets
I watched the walls grow old with light,
But missed the sound that meant goodnight

[Verse 2]
You moved like water through my hands
While I was lost in distant lands
The clocks all chimed, I heard none ring
Each echo lost, a hollow thing

[Chorus]
I wasn’t there — not really there
A shadow drawn in thinner air
Moments bloomed and passed unseen
Like breath I held inside a dream

[Verse 3]
There should’ve been a word, a call
But silence curled around it all
A gaze, a laugh, a quiet touch
All vanished while I cared too much
For nothing real

[Chorus]
I wasn’t there — not when it showed
The signs, the pause, the soft forebode
Time unraveled, thread by thread
But all my thoughts arrived too late instead

[Bridge]
And oh — the weight of could have been
A room where light forgot to dim
Where everything that should’ve stayed
Just flickered once, then slipped away

[Chorus]
I wasn’t there — not in the way
That keeps the dusk from turning gray
You reached, I blinked, the moment fled
The echo’s all I have instead

[Outro]
[Fade Out]
… and now you’re gone