Lyrics
[Intro]
[soft violin
Slow and wavering]
You can hear the chairs remember
Every weight they used to hold
China chipped along the edges
Names and ages growing old
[Verse 1]
I pour one cup of coffee
Set another by your plate
Talk to shadows in the doorway
Let the morning hesitate
Your sweater on the armrest
Dust has learned your shape by heart
Every cupboard keeps your laughter
Like a light that won’t go dark
[Chorus]
Love is a ghost at the kitchen table (mmm)
Breathing in the steam from the evening stew
Every little crack in this crooked cradle
Whispers “I was built to carry you”
Family is the echo that never leaves the room
Love is a ghost
But it feels like you
[Verse 2]
You’re humming with the kettle
That high and haunted little tune (ahh)
I answer in a gravel rumble
Broken mirror to your moon
We count the children on the fridge door
Faded colors
Magnets weak
Every finger paint confession
Every missing baby tooth you keep
[Pre-Chorus]
You ask me
“Will they remember?”
I say
“More than you can know”
Every meal
Each midnight tremor
They were seeds we didn’t know we’d sown
[Chorus]
Love is a ghost at the kitchen table (mmm)
Breathing in the steam from the evening stew
Every little crack in this crooked cradle
Whispers “I was built to carry you”
Family is the echo that never leaves the room
Love is a ghost
But it feels like you
[Bridge]
[female vocal leads
Brighter harmony rises]
Watch them laughing in the hallway
Tiny storms of socks and shoes (ooh)
They are all our little always
Running through these borrowed rooms
[male joins
Tempo lifting slightly]
Let the old pain keep on trembling
Let the good days ring like bells
We are living in the middle
Of the stories they will tell (hey)
[Final Chorus]
Love is a ghost at the kitchen table
But the house is full of singing names
Every empty seat is a quiet cradle
Waiting for the ones that came from us
And came
Family is a river running through this room
Love is a ghost
But it feels like you
[Outro]
[violin returns
Softer
Now tender]
One more cup on the table
One more chair left pulled in close
Low voice
High and fragile halo
Family of flesh
And of ghosts
Style
sparsetremolo-string intro with solo violin weeping on topthen brushed drums and upright bass ease in. male vocals in a leonard cohen–style lowfragile whisper; airyhigh female harmonies entering like a distant echo. first half stays minor and hushedthen gentle modulation into a warmer major feel as the story turns hopeful. final chorus swells with layered stringspianoand a small choir texturethen drops back to just violin and voices for the last line.vocalhappyslowviolinsad
Prompt
Violin crying intro, start slow sad melody goes over to happy, slow dark old man Leonard cohen shivering vocal duet with hi pitch gosthly female vocal about love and family
Credits
Prompt by
James6346
James6346GeneratedFeb 17, 2026
ModelAria v5
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