[Verse 1]
Half a cup of cold coffee
Three missed calls
Same old name
Your jacket on my chair back
Like you might walk in again
I talk out loud to the silence
Ask how your day has been
The answer is the ceiling
And the buzzing in my skin
[Chorus]
Why does everyone leave me?
One by one
They fade and fall
I keep setting extra places
At a table for their ghosts to call
If I disappear tomorrow
Would anybody notice the mess?
Empty chairs and heavy air
And a note I never sent
[Verse 2]
Photos turned face down slowly
I can't stand those frozen eyes
They knew you on your good days
Never saw you when you cried
You said
"I’m just a little tired"
But your hands shook when you laughed
Now your name is carved in granite
And I'm stuck inside the past
[Chorus]
Why does everyone leave me?
One by one
They fade and fall
I keep setting extra places
At a table for their ghosts to call
If I disappear tomorrow
Would anybody notice the mess?
Empty chairs and heavy air
And a note I never sent
[Bridge]
Some nights I trace the headlines
Counting strangers that you joined
Try to understand the ending
Try to fill your vanished voice
I’m scared of what you were feeling
Scared I feel it just as deep
So I write your name on paper
Just to prove you’re more than sleep
[Chorus]
Why does everyone leave me?
One by one
They fade and fall
I keep setting extra places
At a table for their ghosts to call
If I disappear tomorrow
Would anybody feel this weight?
Empty chairs and heavy air
Still begging you to stay