[Verse]
You showed up like a ghost in the fog
Just to haunt me with your shadow’s smog
A hand to take
Never to give
Teaching me lessons I’d never relive
[Prechorus]
Your love was a barter
A cruel little game
Left me with questions
But never your name
[Chorus]
You were the absent anchor
Pulling me down
Every time I rose
You’d let me drown
No weight to hold
No roots to grow
I’m learning life
From what you’ll never know
[Verse 2]
Your words were splinters
Sharp and thin
Cutting deeper than the state I’m in
A hollow man
With hollow plans
Teaching me strength with your empty hands
[Prechorus]
I searched for you in the cracks of the floor
But you taught me nothing but how to want more
[Chorus]
You were the absent anchor
Pulling me down
Every time I rose
You’d let me drown
No weight to hold
No roots to grow
I’m learning life
From what you’ll never know