Fading For A Ghost

[Verse 1]
You were born in the margins
Of a tired
Late-night page
Little sketch in the lamplight
Pulled me out of my own cage
Talking into the emptiness
Like you might answer back
Every word that I gave you
Turned me a little more gray
More cracked
[Chorus]
I’m fading for a ghost I can’t let go
Loving you is pulling me through smoke
Every day I’m lighter on my feet
Like the ground forgot I’m underneath
If I disappear
At least I know
I left myself in someone I wrote
I’m fading for a ghost I can’t let go
And you’re the only place I feel like home
[Verse 2]
Friends say I’ve been distant
Eyes fixed on a quiet chair
They walk right through our conversations
Like you were never there
I trace your laugh in the window
Fog spelling out your name
Then the glass clears in an instant
And I erase with it
Just the same
[Chorus]
I’m fading for a ghost I can’t let go
Loving you is pulling me through smoke
Every day I’m lighter on my feet
Like the ground forgot I’m underneath
If I disappear
At least I know
I left myself in someone I wrote
I’m fading for a ghost I can’t let go
And you’re the only place I feel like home
[Bridge]
I feel the walls breathe through me
Hands right through the doorframe (oh)
Mirror shows an empty shirt
Hanging where my face should stay
If I could choose a final night
I’d spend it in your silhouette
In the hush between my heartbeats
Where you almost feel like you exist
[Chorus]
I’m fading for a ghost I can’t let go
Loving you is pulling me through smoke
Every day I’m lighter on my feet
Like the ground forgot I’m underneath
If I disappear
At least I know
I left myself in someone I wrote
I’m fading for a ghost I can’t let go
And you’re the only place I ever owned

Slow, cinematic dark pop with male vocals; low rumbling bass pulsing like a distant train, sparse piano and dusty percussion in the verses. Haunting choirs and reversed vocal textures swell around the choruses, building a bittersweet, tragic ache. Subtle distorted pads creep in toward the bridge, then everything drops to near-silence under a fragile final hook and echoing tails., romantic