I been sleepin’ next to echoes talkin’ to the past the bed still warm but the warmth don’t last your voice still hums in the corners of my mind like a song that fades but never leaves behind I tried movin’ on but the floorboards creak like they remember every word we’d speak I still pour two cups out of old routine then stare at the chair where you used to lean ghosts don’t haunt you they live through what you keep they speak in silence when you try to sleep I see you in mirrors not your face, but the feel the kind of memory you wish wasn’t real you taught me love like a loaded prayer pulled the trigger softly then left me there I still wear your shadow like a borrowed coat keeps me warm but cuts my throat I laugh sometimes but it’s hollow, thin like the sound of joy rememberin’ sin they say let go but how do you drop what already fades and still won’t stop I walk with ghosts they know my stride we share the road they walk inside I keep sayin’ I’m fine but that’s the disguise truth hides deep behind dry eyes I hear your name in random songs I hum the parts where I went wrong grief’s a thief that never leaves it steals your nights and folds your dreams you don’t move on you just make room for the ghosts that stay and the hearts they ruin some days I’m whole some days I’m less some days I dance with your emptiness and maybe that’s love at its truest cost to find yourself where you once got lost you live in the smoke of my breath, my sighs in the crack of my voice in my bloodshot eyes you’re the line I skip when I write my pain the tear that falls but hides in rain I keep you near like a scar I trust faded, soft but still enough sometimes I swear I feel your hand ghost touch real where I still stand and maybe you’re gone but not erased you’re ink that time can’t quite replace ’cause love don’t die it just learns to drift through hollow halls of what it missed and every night I light that flame hopin’ your ghost remembers my name if I’m quiet long enough I swear you speak not in words but in how I weep and if heaven hears I hope it knows I don’t hate you I just miss your ghost
