From the recording Pet Loss & Love That Remains
Lyrics
Verse 1]
The mailman came this morning.
He didn’t even slow.
Cars rush down the street.
They have somewhere to go.
My neighbor waves and smiles,
talks small talk about the rain.
He doesn’t see the hole in me.
He doesn’t see the pain.
[Pre-Chorus]
Everyone keeps moving.
I’m standing in the frame.
[Chorus]
The world didn’t stop.
It just kept spinning round.
Like the best thing I ever had
wasn’t lowered in the ground.
They say “sorry for your loss”
then get on with their day.
They don’t know my world stopped
when you went away.
[Verse 2]
Emails. Meetings. Traffic.
The coffee shop line hums.
A laugh breaks on the sidewalk.
I flinch when morning comes.
A stranger holds the elevator,
asks me how I am.
I nod and say “I’m fine.”
I’m not. I never am.
[Pre-Chorus]
There’s mercy in their voices.
There’s distance in their eyes.
[Chorus]
The world didn’t stop.
It just kept spinning round.
Like the love that I carried home
doesn’t count without a sound.
They say “time will heal it,”
and they drift the other way.
They don’t know my world stopped
on that final day.
[Bridge]
It wasn’t “just a dog.”
It was breath and ritual and name.
It was keys and evening footsteps.
It was every day the same.
If grief needs permission,
then mine can’t get a stamp.
I light my little candle.
I stand beneath the lamp.
[Chorus]
The world didn’t stop.
But I can say it out loud.
You were my world. You were my home.
I say your name in the crowd.
Let the city keep on moving.
Let the headlines roll on through.
If their clocks won’t make the space,
I’ll hold the time for you.
The world didn’t stop.
I stay and carry you.