263 Million Reasons

I wish you were gone, like smoke through the dawn,

Two hundred sixty three million reasons, but you still live on.

Footsteps in the silence, chill against my skin,

Every whispered longing lets the darkness in.

You're the shadow in the mirror, flicker in the light,

Breathing down my neck in the dead of night.

A phantom in the doorway where your smile once stood,

But no exorcist can free me — oh, I wish they could.

Your name’s a spell that I can’t unbind,

Trapped in a séance with my broken mind.

Two hundred sixty three million candles burning low,

But your ghost just won’t let go.

I wish you were dead (yeah)

Two hundred sixty three million reasons going through my head

I wish you were dead (yeah)

So I never have to live a day knowing what I don’t have

I wish you were dead (yeah)

Your laughter’s like a cold wind whispering through the halls,

I board up every window, but I still hear your calls.

Each tick of the clock is a ghost of the past,

263 million moments that will never pass.

You're the wraith that clings beneath my skin,

No holy water’s washing you from within.

Two hundred sixty three million reasons to forget your face,

But this haunting love won’t give me space.

I wish you were dead (yeah)

Two hundred sixty three million reasons going through my head

I wish you were dead (yeah)

So I never have to live a day knowing what I don’t have

I wish you were dead (yeah)

I salt the floors, I cleanse the air,

But your memory’s a curse I cannot bear.

You come onto me every night, but I’m left cold inside,

You’re not really here — no touch can satisfy.

In this haunted house of all we said,

I’m the living, you’re the undead.

You come onto me every night (yeah),

Whispered moans in the pale moonlight.

But no matter how I reach or fight,

You fade before I’m satisfied.

I wish you were dead (yeah)

Two hundred sixty three million reasons going through my head

I wish you were dead (yeah)

So I never have to live a day knowing what I don’t have

I wish you were dead (yeah)