Ghost in the Passenger Seat

[Verse 1]
Your jacket’s still hanging on the same old chair
Coffee cup ring on the counter there
Talk to the air like you might answer me
Swear I hear your keys by the door at three
Bills in your name stacked by the kitchen sink
Voice in my head says “you’re fine
” I don’t think
Every room feels staged
Like a TV scene
I’m stuck in the take where you didn’t leave
[Chorus]
I’m driving with a ghost in the passenger seat
Eyes on the road
But you’re all that I see
If I say your name enough
Will you breathe?
This can’t be real
This can’t be real to me
I keep slamming on the brakes
But I can’t wake up
World keeps moving
I keep staying stuck
If I tear this sky
Will you fall back to me?
I’m living in a world where you didn’t leave
[Verse 2]
Your boots by the door
Dust on every lace
I leave them turned out like you’ll need that space
Mom keeps asking if I’m doing okay
I just bite my tongue so I won’t say
I see you in crowds
In the bend of a back
In the way someone laughs
In the way they stand slack
My phone lights up and I still half expect
Your name to flash like you never left
[Chorus]
I’m driving with a ghost in the passenger seat
Eyes on the road
But you’re all that I see
If I say your name enough
Will you breathe?
This can’t be real
This can’t be real to me
I keep slamming on the brakes
But I can’t wake up
World keeps moving
I keep staying stuck
If I tear this sky
Will you fall back to me?
I’m living in a world where you didn’t leave
[Bridge]
[Half-time
Guitars drop to a low drone]
Tell me this is just a bad cut scene (wake me up)
Roll it back
Splice you back into my days
Every mirror shows a stranger’s face
Yours in the glass
Then it melts away
I punch the wall just to feel something (feel something)
Knuckles bleed like it might rewind time
If grief is a place
I’m nailed to the floor
You’re on the other side of that locked door
[Breakdown]
(screamed)
I won’t say goodbye
I won’t sign your name in stone
If this is reality
I choose my own
[Chorus]
I’m driving with a ghost in the passenger seat
Hands on the wheel
But I’m losing my grip on me
If I scream your name enough
Will you breathe?
This can’t be real
This can’t be real to me
I keep slamming on the brakes
But I can’t wake up
World keeps moving
I keep staying stuck
If I tear this sky
Will you fall back to me?
I’m trapped inside the life
Where you didn’t leave (where you didn’t leave)

metal, Crushing metalcore / alt-metal blend, male vocals. Tension-building intro with dissonant guitars and tom-heavy drums exploding into a double-time chorus. Verses ride palm-muted chugs and syncopated kick patterns; chorus opens with wide, octave leads and gang shouts. Bridge drops to half-time with screamed vocals and bending riffs, then final chorus up a notch with layered harmonies and a sustained high guitar line., post-hardcore, metalcore, alternative metal