Intro – whispered, layered vocals]
She gone...
But she ain’t really gone, nah
She still here
Every night…
[Verse 1]
Woke up to static, blood on the mirror
Her breath in the frost, gettin’ colder each year
Left them boots by the door, like a marker, a shrine
Now the floorboards creak to the rhythm of time
House moans low like it’s speakin’ in tongues
Every step I take feel a weight in my lungs
She vanished in smoke, didn’t slam no door
But her perfume rot in the walls and the floor
[Hook – eerie melody, maybe sung/auto-tuned with dark harmonies]
She left her boots by the door (boots by the door)
Now I can’t sleep no more (sleep no more)
She gone, but she haunt these boards
Whispers in the hall like a goddamn war
[Verse 2]
TV flickers when I speak her name
Ravens at the window just peck at the frame
Clock runs backward at 3:03
And I swear that I hear her breathin’ on me
Tried bleach, tried sage, tried drownin’ the sound
But the echoes of her still shake the ground
Used to hold her hand, now I hold regret
And a .38 cold with a silhouette
[Hook – darker, maybe layered with whispers]
She left her boots by the door (boots by the door)
Now I can’t sleep no more (sleep no more)
She gone, but she haunt these boards
Whispers in the hall like a goddamn war
[Bridge – spoken word, over ambient noise]
You ever feel watched in your own damn skin?
Like she’s waitin’ behind you to crawl back in?
I dance with her ghost in this blood-red light
Every shadow’s a noose, every mirror’s a fight
[Outro – whispered / distorted]
And I...
I still see her face
In the cracks of the paint
In the drip of the drain
In the boots...
By the door...
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