Specter In My Skin

[Verse 1]
You traced your name
On my throat in summer
Said I was safe
Then you pulled the cover
You walked away
And the room turned hollow
I stayed in place
But my shadow followed
[Chorus]
I’m a specter in my skin
Walking through the life I’m in
You don’t see me
You don’t feel
How you turned my heart to steel
I was burning
Now I’m dim
Just a specter in my skin
Yeah
You killed the boy within
Left a specter in my skin (woah)
[Verse 2]
Friends say talk
But the words fall through me
I wear your loss
Like a cracked old movie
Your empty chair
Stares me down at midnight
I breathe you in
But you’re made of hindsight
[Chorus]
I’m a specter in my skin
Walking through the life I’m in
You don’t see me
You don’t feel
How you turned my heart to steel
I was burning
Now I’m dim
Just a specter in my skin
Yeah
You killed the boy within
Left a specter in my skin
[Bridge]
If you called my name
Would I come back to life? (hey!)
Or just haunt your halls
Like a bad reprise
You can keep your crown
I’ll keep all these scars
‘Cause a ghost like me
Still remembers who you are
[Chorus]
I’m a specter in my skin
Walking through the life I’m in
You don’t see me
You don’t feel
How you turned my heart to steel
I was burning
Now I’m dim
Just a specter in my skin
Yeah
You killed the boy within
Left a specter in my skin
[Outro]
Fade to black
Then I fade again
I was yours
Now I’m less than man
Just a breath
Behind your grin
Just a specter
In my skin

rock, Melodic alternative rock, male vocals. Clean guitar arpeggios under hushed verses that bloom into wide, distorted choruses with stacked harmonies and a gritty bass line. Drums move from tom-heavy, restrained grooves to explosive ride-cymbal crashes in the hook. Bridge strips to vocal, reverb-drenched lead guitar swells, then slams back with a double-time outro riff and shouted ad-libs.