Listen When I’m Gone — A Darkwave Farewell

† Unlock my secret links & more! 🔓💎👇 https://linktr.ee/ashbornrecords --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Listen When I’m Gone" is a darkwave gothic rock farewell — a confession carved from rain, silence, and the ache of five months without her. It is the sound of a man turning his pain into a requiem, a gift left in her hands: “Listen when I’m gone.” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE STORY Ash, a gothic man in black velvet, watches Nina pack her life into a black leather travel bag. She is leaving for five months. Rain hammers the castle walls. The love between them has already cracked like old stone. In the ruins of a candlelit chapel, he falls to his knees. She removes her wedding ring and places it in his palm. Half the black candles die in the wind. By pale morning light, Ash carries her suitcases to a black car waiting in the mist. A final embrace. A last, rain-soaked kiss. A whisper. Then she is gone. Ash runs after the car. He stumbles in the mud. He screams into the storm. And when he opens his shaking hand, all that remains is her ring — covered in rain and earth, swallowed by the fog. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STUDIO INSIGHT This video was built frame by frame with an obsessive love for dark, cinematic storytelling. Every shadow was placed with intention. Every rain-streaked window, every candle, every empty road carries the weight of a goodbye we couldn’t say out loud. I need to be honest: parts of this visual world were shaped with the help of AI creative tools — not to replace the human emotion behind the music, but to push the visual language further than we could alone. The story, the feeling, the darkness, the truth? That is entirely Ashborn. 🖤 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this farewell echoes inside you, please subscribe, leave a comment, and share it with someone who understands the weight of silence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CREDITS Artist: Ashborn Records Video Direction: Ashborn Records Storyboard & Visual Concept: Ashborn Records Production: Ashborn Records © 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #AshbornRecords #ListenWhenImGone #Darkwave #GothicRock #DarkMusicVideo #GothicArt #GothicVibes #CinematicMusic #DarkAesthetic #AIcinematic #MusicVideo2026 #DarkRomance #GothicLove #Farewell ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Copyright Notice All audio, lyrics, and visual content are the exclusive property of Ashborn Records. All rights reserved. No part of this video or audio may be reproduced, re-uploaded, or distributed in any form without prior written permission from the copyright owner. © 2026 Ashborn Records ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LYRICS Five months of silence wait outside your door I walked through the rain with a song I made before You were almost leaving, I was hollow to the bone I pressed it in your hands and said “play it when alone” Listen when I’m gone Let the dark chords keep you warm In the space between the notes I am still beside your form Listen when I’m gone Underneath the streetlights, your shadow turned to grey I gave you all my sorrow in a minor key array I didn’t have the words to say, I couldn’t meet your eyes So I built a little requiem for the nights you’ll cry Listen when I’m gone Let the dark chords keep you warm In the space between the notes I am still beside your form Listen when I’m gone Five months of rain, five months of cold A heartbeat made of echoes in a love I never told When the clock is heavy and the room is all too still Put my voice into the dark and let it break against your will Listen when I’m gone When the world has come undone In the echo of my whisper You will never be alone Listen when I’m gone Listen when I’m gone… Listen when I’m gone… follow Ashborn Records on Spotify: 👉 https://open.spotify.com/artist/47A2Z... 🔥 Subscribe to Ashborn Records for more gothic rock, darkwave and dark alternative music: @ashbornrecords2025 👉 Turn on the notification bell so you don’t miss the next release.