🎶 Before I Go by Waymon Hudson — A Quiet Goodbye That Comes Back Louder
- Waymon Hudson
- Oct 5
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 10
I used to think that love meant staying.
Staying patient. Staying quiet.
Staying even when something in you knows it’s already over.
That’s the version of love I grew up with — the kind where silence was a survival tactic, and disappearing a little each day was just the cost of being close to someone.
But Before I Go is the moment I finally stopped disappearing.
🎧 Before I Go — The Song That Knew Before I Did
The lyrics came long after the feelings did.
This song started in a relationship I was in when I was younger — when I wasn’t as sure of who I was, what I deserved, or how to ask for it. I loved this person, deeply. But somewhere along the way, I started pouring everything into them and leaving nothing for myself.
I wrote Before I Go in pieces, over months, as I slowly realized:
You can love someone and still need to leave.
You can want them — until you want you more.
It’s not a song about a fight. There’s no slammed door, no dramatic finale.
It’s about the quiet ways we slip away when we’re no longer being seen.
It’s about love that doesn’t look like love anymore — just habits and heartbreak.
It’s about whispering goodbye every morning… until you finally say it out loud.
🧠 How I Wrote It (Without Hearing It)
I wrote and recorded this song after losing my hearing.
Which means I didn’t “hear” it the way I used to.
I felt it.
The piano in this track moves like breath. The vocals are raw — almost breaking in places. But that’s exactly what this moment called for. It’s a goodbye laced with grief, but also clarity. The kind that hits you in the chest and says, This is the last time you shrink to be loved.
I built the rhythm around heartbeat patterns and vocal shapes I could feel vibrating through me. I sang each word like a confession. I trusted that what I couldn’t hear, I could still know.
And I did.
🎶 The Album: Through My Skin
This is the second single from my upcoming album, Through My Skin.
It’s not just a collection of songs. It’s a body of work — literally. Every note, every lyric, every drop of sweat that went into it comes from how I experience the world as a deaf artist now: through vibration, tension, memory, and sensation.
Some songs on the album are sweaty and sexy.
This one is quiet. Honest. Unfolding.
But it’s just as powerful.
🖤 Why This Song Still Matters
I don’t just write music to tell stories.
I write it to reclaim the ones I used to silence — even from myself.
Before I Go is a love letter to anyone who’s ever had to choose themselves.
It’s a reminder that you’re allowed to outgrow people.
That leaving isn’t weakness.
It’s a return to self.
🔗 Want to Feel It? Before I Go by Waymon Hudson — A Quiet Goodbye That Comes Back Louder
Sung through the skin.
And meant to be felt.
Because sometimes, goodbye isn’t bitter. It’s brave.
Before I Go by Waymon Hudson
🎶 P.S. My debut single Ruin Me Slowly is out now!
It’s sexy, sad, and a little dangerous — just like the best mistakes.
Listen now wherever you stream music — and get ruined slowly with me.
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