The girl in the walls

(Piano)

(Whispering violin)

There’s a girl inside the walls

She knows all my secrets

She repeats them in the dark

Until they sound like prayers

She wears my face

When nobody is watching

And smiles at things

I don’t remember doing

She follows me through mirrors

Through reflections in the rain

She stands behind my shoulder

Like a stain I cannot clean

Sometimes I hear her laughing

From the other side of sleep

Sometimes I wake up crying

And she won’t let me leave

She knows my name

She knows my fears

She drinks the silence

From my ears

She wears my skin

She wears my grief

And tells me things

I want to believe

I locked every door

I sealed every window

But she was already inside

Waiting for me

She knows where I break

She knows where I bend

She knows which wounds

Never truly mend

Maybe she isn’t haunting me

Maybe she never was

Maybe she’s only

Everything I’ve become

(Pause)

Maybe the voice in the darkness

The footsteps above

The eyes in the mirror

Are all my own

She knows my name

She knows my fears

She drinks the silence

From my ears

She wears my skin

She wears my grief

And tells me things

I choose to believe

The walls are quiet now

The room is still

I look into the mirror

And she’s looking back…