[Verse 1]
Coffee on the counter
Two cups
Only one gets cold
Pictures on the fridge still crooked
Like the day the world got sold
I talk to empty doorways
Call their names into the air
Answer comes in echoes
From a house that is not there
[Chorus]
Ashes in the hallway
Footprints fading down the stairs
I reach out to the silence
Grab at ghosts that are not there
If healing is a mountain
Then I’m crawling on my hands
Bleeding on each memory
Trying just to learn to stand
[Verse 2]
I fold up tiny T‑shirts
Stack them like a losing hand
Birthday cards in cardboard boxes
Every word a grain of sand
Friends say “time will fix it”
Like a crack in window glass
But the storm lives in my ribcage
And every breath kicks up the past
[Chorus]
[Breakdown]
[low vocal register]
I can’t forgive the sunrise
For shining on an empty seat
I curse the clock each morning
For dragging me back to my feet
[growled vocals]
Every second
Is a siren
Every heartbeat
Feels like violence
[screamed vocals]
WHERE WERE YOU
WHEN THE SKY CAME DOWN?
WHEN THE SCREAMS CUT THROUGH
THIS DYING TOWN?
I HELD THEIR NAMES
LIKE BURNING STONE
NOW I’M STANDING
ON THEIR BONES
TELL ME HOW TO BREATHE AGAIN
TELL ME WHY I WOKE ALONE
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
I’m learning how to drive again
Past the school
Past the cul‑de‑sac
I park one street over
So I don’t have to see what I lack
[soft
Almost spoken]
I set three plates on the table
Then I put two of them away
I am here
They are gone
But I’m staying
Through today
[Chorus]