[Intro]
Soft steps in the dark
Dust in the air
Slow dancing
Breath caught in my chest
Like I’m waking in the middle of a dream
One light on the floor
Cold glass in my hand
Still shaking
Your name on my tongue
But the sound never seems to leave
[Verse 1]
I trace the outline
Where your shadow used to fall on the wall
Faded outlines
On the pictures that we stacked in the hall
Every heartbeat
Feels like thunder in an empty room
Every heartbeat
Asks if you’re coming back soon
[Chorus]
Are you just a veil of echoes?
Calling from a place I can’t see
Reaching out through all this distance
But you keep on slipping through me
I’m standing in the afterimage
Of everything we couldn’t save
Are you just a veil of echoes?
Or are you waiting past the haze?
[Verse 2]
Clock hands crawl slow
Rain draws crooked lines on the pane
Street glow blurs
As I write your initials again
I keep searching
Through the static in the back of my mind
Keep on searching
For the pieces we left behind
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
If I fall into the silence
Will I finally hear you clear?
If I walk into the darkness
Will I find you waiting here? (waiting here)
[full voice]
Every step is getting louder
Every fear begins to shake
If I vanish in the echo
Will I see you when I break?
[Chorus]
[Outro]
[whispered vocals]
Just a veil
Just an echo
Only shadows
Drifting
Drifting
[pads swell
Strings rising]
I reach once more
Hands through smoke
Your shape dissolves
But the feeling holds
[softly]
Veil of echoes
Calling me home
[crescendo
Then long reverb tail]