Afterimage

(soft, distant synths or reversed echoes)

Fading... fading... not here anymore

I stare at the screen, but the pixels don't bite

Colors bleed out, lost in the white noise of night

Hands on the glass, but they pass right through

The person who answered doesn't look like you

I walk through the streets like a ghost in repeat

Voices bounce back, but none of them meet

Memories glitch, they stutter and freeze

I'm chasing a shadow that used to be me

Everything's quiet, but the silence screams

I'm drowning in nothing, tearing at seams

I'm a hollow void, just an afterimage now

Not the original, just the ghost somehow

Lost touch with reality, can't feel the ground

Echo of someone who can't be found

Hollow void... afterimage... fading out

Conversations replay like corrupted files

Smiles feel scripted, been running for miles

The mirror shows someone I used to know

But the eyes are empty, the fire won't glow

I reach for connection, fingers dissolve

Into static and vapor, problems unsolved

Reality slipped while I wasn't looking

Left me behind like a program that's cooking

Heartbeat's a sample on infinite loop

No warmth, no pain, just a digital bruise

I'm a hollow void, just an afterimage now

Not the original, just the ghost somehow

Lost touch with reality, can't feel the ground

Echo of someone who can't be found

Hollow void... afterimage... burning down

(slower, stripped back – maybe just vocals and sparse piano/echoes)

Who was I before the blur set in?

Before the edges softened, before the spin?

I scream my name, but it echoes thin

Dissolving again... dissolving...

(build with layered vocals or distortion)

I'm a hollow void, only afterimage remains

Washed-out outline in permanent rain

No anchor, no gravity, drifting unchained

Lost to the nothing where feeling has waned

Hollow void... afterimage... gone

(fading echoes, reversing into silence)

Not me... not me... anymore...