Unravel Void - Next to Mine | Progressive Metal · Alternative Rock

"Next to Mine" closes The Shape of Absence by Unravel Void. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Using parallel realities as an emotional framework, the song imagines different versions of a life shaped by different decisions. These possibilities are not presented as literal destinations or scientifically accessible worlds. They represent the persistent human ability to imagine an alternative present. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Album: The Shape of Absence (2026) 01 Orbit · 02 Like a Tuesday · 03 The Line · 04 Next to Mine ▶ Full album playlist:    • Unravel Void - The Shape of Absence   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LYRICS I could have kept my distance I could have let you pass Could have felt you getting closer And never answered back There's a life where I said no Where you went home that night You never knew what I was thinking And I never knew what we'd find Sometimes I think about him The man I might have been He never learned your footsteps Coming closer down the hall But there has to be another way Another way this went Where I opened up the door And we never reached the end With all those lives running beside us Every road we didn't take There has to be one somewhere Where we never walked away Where we never walked away For a while it came so easy I didn't have to try I didn't have to earn my place Or read between the lines Nothing in me needed fixing Nothing had to be explained I could sit there in the quiet And never feel out of place Maybe somewhere we met sooner Maybe somewhere we had time Maybe all the things that stopped us Never happened in that life But there has to be another way Another way this went Where I opened up the door And we never reached the end With all those lives running beside us Every road we didn't take There has to be one somewhere Where we never walked away I don't need to find the doorway I know I can't get through I just need to know there's somewhere Where I don't have to lose you There has to be another way One we will never see Where nothing had to pull apart What felt so natural to me Somewhere all the noise went quiet Somewhere we got time Somewhere you wake up beside me In a life next to mine If I were standing there again Before I let you in Knowing everything I know now... ...Would I let you in? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Unravel Void is a virtual progressive rock/metal collective. Music produced with AI tools. 🌐 https://unravelvoid.com ✉ contact@unravelvoid.com #progressivemetal #atmosphericmetal #unravelvoid