The Echoes Never Left Verse 1 Fifty years these gates have rusted, Nature swallowed every stone. Paint peels from forgotten memories… Yet somehow I’m not alone. Footsteps whisper down the hallways, Though the dust lies undisturbed. Every shadow feels familiar… Like a life I’ve never heard. The cold wind moans through broken windows, Carrying names I used to know. Every breath becomes much heavier… As something follows where I go. Pre-Chorus The keys still rattle in the darkness, Though no living hand remains. Something watches from the silence… Calling softly through my veins. Chorus The echoes never left this place, They’re stitched into the cracked old walls. They know my name… they know my silence… They’ve waited through these empty halls. White jackets drift through endless corridors, Like restless spirits dressed in grey. Every whisper pulls me closer… Begging me to never walk away. I hear the screams from lives forgotten, Echoing beneath the stone. Every cry becomes a memory… One that somehow feels my own. Verse 2 The treatment rooms stand cold and empty, Steel beds waiting in a line. Rusted instruments still glisten… As if untouched by passing time. Down the hallway lights are flickering, Though there’s no power left to give. Shapes appear beside the doorways… Like they never ceased to live. The smell of antiseptic lingers, Mixed with iron in the air. Walls are stained a crimson colour… Like the building still remembers there. Bridge Blood-red stains that shouldn’t glisten… They pulse beneath the fractured stone. Every mirror steals my reflection… Leaving someone else alone. Every shadow wears my face now, Whispering, “You’ve come back home.” The life I thought I’d always lived… Was never truly mine alone. I remember screams and silence… Cold restraints around my hands. Then the truth comes crashing through me… I once walked these haunted lands. Breakdown (Whispered) Don’t run… You can’t leave… You were never meant to… The gates are closing… The locks remember… The walls remember… We remember… Final Chorus The echoes never left this place, They’ve waited through the passing years. Every hallway leads me deeper… Every doorway feeds my fears. Cold hands rise from endless darkness, Pulling me beyond the veil. Every spirit stands before me… Knowing I was bound to fail. The keys stop rattling all at once… Silence swallows every sound. The asylum takes me back again… To where I’ve always been bound. No more sunrise… No more leaving… No more life beyond these walls. Only whispers… Only shadows… Answering the darkness when it calls. Outro (Whispered) Fifty years… Still waiting… Still remembering… The gates are sealed… The circle ends… I was never the visitor… I was the one… Who came home.
