Selim realized that while Elif had "chosen the easy one," he was left with the hard part: waking up tomorrow. He would have to learn how to drink coffee alone, how to explain the absence to friends, and how to look at the empty side of the bed without feeling like a ghost himself.

of the song's specific lyrics (e.g., the meaning of "Yıkıl da ki ölmeyesin" ).

He realized then the devastating truth of the song he’d heard a thousand times: —how easy it is to leave.