The Taste Of Gone | Dark Blues | Divorce Blues

Ever had someone leave you so completely that even food stops tasting right? When heartbreak becomes so physical that everything you put in your mouth tastes like the word "goodbye"?

Song Description:
This one's about the physical weight of loss. Not the poetry of it, not the metaphor, the actual, literal way your body changes when someone rips themselves out of your life. How coffee starts tasting like metal. How you can't remember what hunger feels like. How you stand at the kitchen sink eating cold beans straight from the can because cooking for one feels like admitting defeat.

The doctor says there's nothing wrong with him. Blood pressure's fine, heart's still beating, lungs still work. But he knows the truth, there's rot inside that no test can measure. He can taste it every morning. Copper pennies and decay. The taste of gone.

Three years later and it hasn't faded. His daughter brings him Christmas dinner wrapped in foil, reheated and well-meaning. He tells her it's delicious because that's what fathers do. But everything tastes like ashes now. Everything tastes like the morning she packed her bags and wouldn't look at him.

This is for the man who's forgotten what food is supposed to taste like. Who drinks whiskey not for the burn but because at least it tastes like something other than emptiness. Who stands in the grocery store frozen, staring at ingredients for meals he'll never cook again, for a woman who'll never come back.

The taste of gone. It's the only flavor left.

Lyrics:
🥃 THE TASTE OF GONE 🥃
🎤 Verse 1
Coffee tastes like metal now
Can't remember what food's supposed to be
Everything I put in my mouth
Tastes like the word she said to me
🎤 Verse 2
Doctor says my blood pressure's fine
Says there's nothing physically wrong
But I can taste the rot inside my chest
Been there since the day she was gone
🎸 Chorus
Got the taste of gone in my mouth
Like copper pennies on my tongue
Got the taste of gone going down
Like swallowing razor blades and rum
🎤 Verse 3
Bartender knows to pour it neat
Says I drink like a man trying to forget
But whiskey just tastes like more regret
Every shot's a losing bet
🎵 Instrumental Break
🎤 Verse 4
Used to love her Sunday cooking
Pot roast, potatoes, all of that
Now I eat standing at the sink
Straight from cans, don't even heat the facts
🎸 Chorus
Got the taste of gone in my mouth
Like copper pennies on my tongue
Got the taste of gone going down
Like swallowing razor blades and rum
🎤 Bridge
They say time heals everything
They say the pain will fade away
But three years later I still taste
The morning that she wouldn't stay
🎤 Verse 5
My daughter brought me Christmas dinner
Heated up and wrapped in foil
I smiled and said it tasted great
But ashes don't need salt or oil
🎸 Chorus
Got the taste of gone in my mouth
Like copper pennies on my tongue
Got the taste of gone going down
Like swallowing razor blades and rum
🎵 Outro
Yeah, everything tastes like gone
And gone tastes just like dying slow

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Credits:
🎸 Music Genre: Blues, soul and music from the heart.
✍️ Lyrics & Composition: All original, from the heart, for the heart.
📺 Channel: Midnight Blues Confessions
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