Empty Hearts - Nightmare Sonata

[Intro] [Verse - female vocal,[In a hushed, breathy tone that builds to soaring vocals] Empty rooms echo with silence, walls closing in on my soul Shadows dance where your presence once lived, now just a memory growing old I trace your name in the mists of dawn , watching it fade like morning dew Every shape shows a stranger's face, a reflection that isn't you [Chorus -female vocal, powerful operatic vocals with dramatic crescendos] Loneliness, my only companion, wrapped in velvet and shadows This haunting melody plays on and on, a symphony of shapes in empty windows I scream your name to the void above, but only echoes answer back In this mausoleum of solitude, my heart is dead... [Bridge - female vocal, Spoken word with piano underneath, transitioning to operatic] Time keeps mocking me, ticking away these endless nights I hold my breath until my lungs burn, hoping to see your ghostly light But darkness claims me once again... [Chorus - female vocal Full operatic power with emotional vibrato] Loneliness, my only companion, wrapped in velvet and shadows This haunting melody plays on and on, a symphony of shapes in empty windows I scream your name to the void above, but only echoes answer back In this mausoleum of solitude, my heart is dead... [Outro] [Fading to a whisper with sparse piano] Alone... alone... forever alone... [Piano single notes fade into silence]