Absence

(Verse 1) (silence until the verse starts)

I traced the cracks in the ceiling with my tired eyes,

Counting the ways the light refuses to die.

The echo in my chest hums a hollow tune,

A choir of whispers singing, "You'll be empty soon."

(Pre-Chorus)

Scratching at the walls of this skin I rent,

Begging the dark to tell me where my heaven went.

(Chorus)

I scream into the absence—does it scream back?

Or does it just swallow me whole like a heart attack?

I’m a godless prayer, a broken oath,

Dangling over the edge of a joke I wrote.

(Verse 2)

The mirror’s laughing at the ghost I’ve become,

A silhouette stitched from the damage I’ve done.

I carved my name in the dust on the floor,

But the wind just laughed and kicked it out the door.

(Bridge)

Tell me, where do the lost things go?

The love letters, the will to grow?

Is there a grave for the light we shed,

Or does it just rot in the back of our heads?

(Chorus)

I scream into the absence—does it scream back?

Or does it just swallow me whole like a heart attack?

I’m a godless prayer, a broken oath,

Dangling over the edge of a joke I wrote.

(Outro)

So bury me shallow where the dogs can dig,

Let the world forget the weight of it.

I was a spark that the dark outran,

Now I’m just the shadow of what might’ve been