REMEMBERS THE SHAPE
(of what remains)
Same DNA. Different Souls. One Story.
The sister album to Wavelength Traces — the same visual DNA, new colors, new objects.
New track every Tuesday from 23.2.2027 · Full album 25.5.2027
Written, produced & created by DJ Andy'K
Featuring Kallesi, Roxana Müller, Juliana Krecker Novak, Lia Bonson & Livia Benttner
I Missed My Own Funeral
Song Information
We often save our kindest words for when it is too late to hear them. People gather, flowers are chosen, speeches are written, and a love that once felt out of reach suddenly fills the room. Yet what most of us long for is far more ordinary: dinner in someone's kitchen, a conversation on a Tuesday, the feeling of being heard while we are still here. Why do we wait until someone is gone to tell them how much they mattered?
Download Song SheetPDF · Info · Chords · Lyrics- Producer
- DJ Andy'K
- Genre
- Trance · Progressive
- Release Date
- 2027-05-25
- Vocal
- Juliana Krecker Novak
Lyrics
[Spoken Intro]
I have a funeral tomorrow.
Well…
Today now.
Everybody’s coming.
Funny.
I could never get them in the same room before.
[Verse 1]
Somebody chose a photograph
From a year I barely knew.
Cropped the stranger off my shoulder,
Said my eyes were always blue.
Someone brought my favourite flowers.
They were never favourites of mine.
But I guess there’s no correcting
What they remember this time.
[Pre-Chorus]
They found a day.
They found the place.
Found something kind to say.
I wonder where those words were kept
When I was still a call away.
[Chorus]
I missed my own funeral.
Everybody else was there.
They brought me things I never wanted,
Filled the room with folding chairs.
I missed my own funeral.
Heard you finally said my name.
You had so much time to love me.
Why’d you wait until today?
[Post-Chorus]
Everybody came.
Everybody came.
I spent years waiting—
Everybody came.
[Verse 2]
You wore the coat I used to borrow.
Someone said you held up well.
You told a story from a summer
I remember differently myself.
There were presents on the table,
Little things I wouldn’t keep.
Someone laughed the way I liked it.
For a second, that was me.
[Pre-Chorus]
No one had to leave for work.
No one said they couldn’t stay.
You made an afternoon of missing me.
I used to ask for half a day.
[Chorus]
I missed my own funeral.
Everybody else was there.
They brought me things I never wanted,
Filled the room with folding chairs.
I missed my own funeral.
Heard you finally said my name.
You had so much time to love me.
Why’d you wait until today?
[Breakdown]
Don’t tell them I was always smiling.
There are photographs of that.
There are other things you could remember.
The way I called.
The things I asked.
The nights you said,
“We’ll talk tomorrow.”
[Bridge]
I wanted dinner in your kitchen.
I wanted somewhere I could sit.
I wanted you to hear the whole thing,
Even when I stumbled over it.
Keep the flowers.
Keep the speeches.
Keep the version you can bear.
I wanted you on ordinary Tuesdays.
I wanted you when I was there.
[Build]
When I was there.
When I was there.
Before you had a room to fill,
Before you had a speech prepared.
[Final Chorus]
I missed my own funeral.
Everybody else was there.
All the love I couldn’t reach
Was suddenly everywhere.
I missed my own funeral.
You had so much left to say.
I needed those words years ago.
You brought them all today.
[Outro]
I had a funeral tomorrow.
It’s yesterday now.
Did you stay
Until they put the chairs away?
