Echoes of a Vanished Name

They called me by a name I never knew

Wrote my story in a script they drew

Pages torn, yet I pretend to smile

In echoes I walk, mile after mile

But I was never really there

A shadow in their perfect air

Now I sing with lips unclaimed

Echoes of a vanished name

I learned to talk in silent rooms

Taught myself to bleed in tune

Played the hero in their fable

Chained beneath a marble table

But I was never really there

A shadow in their perfect air

Now I sing with lips unclaimed

Echoes of a vanished name

So tell me, do you see me now?

Or just a role, rehearsed somehow

This voice you hear, it’s not my own

It’s pieces stitched from flesh and bone

Still I was never really there

Not a face they'd ever spare

Let the silence take the blame

For echoes of a vanished name