[Intro — distant room tone + piano] I thought ghosts were supposed to be dead. So why do yours still know my name? ⸻ [Verse 1] There’s a shadow in the hallway Where your coat used to hang There’s a whisper in the kitchen Saying something I can’t name Every room still keeps your outline Every floorboard knows your weight And the silence gets much louder When the clock turns past eight I keep telling myself it’s nothing Just the house settling in But the air changes every evening… Like you’re walking back again ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] I don’t know what’s worse That you’re gone… Or that somehow you never really left ⸻ [Chorus] I’ve got ghosts Living in the walls Ghosts Calling through the halls Every memory wears your face Every shadow takes your shape I’ve got ghosts Sleeping in my bed Ghosts Talking in my head And every time I close my eyes You come back from somewhere I can’t find I’ve got ghosts… And they all look like you ⸻ [Verse 2] There’s a picture on the bookshelf That I swear was facing down Now it’s looking at the doorway Like it knows you’re coming round There’s a glass beside the window Still collecting dust and rain And somehow every little object Feels like evidence of pain I tried changing all the furniture Tried painting every wall But you can’t redecorate a memory… When it’s living through it all ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] Maybe haunted doesn’t mean There’s something underneath the floor Maybe haunted means You still hear somebody… Who isn’t there anymore ⸻ [Chorus] I’ve got ghosts Living in the walls Ghosts Calling through the halls Every memory wears your face Every shadow takes your shape I’ve got ghosts Sleeping in my bed Ghosts Talking in my head And every time I close my eyes You come back from somewhere I can’t find I’ve got ghosts… And they all look like you ⸻ [Bridge — stripped to piano + breath] If I saw you standing there tonight… Would I run? Would I freeze? Would I ask you where you’ve been? Or would I just… Hold you? (pause) Maybe that’s the cruelest thing about grief. You know the dead can’t come back… But some part of you still listens for the door. ⸻ [Breakdown — heartbeat + whispers] One step Two steps Down the hall One breath No one There at all One name My mouth Won’t forget Some ghosts… Aren’t finished yet ⸻ [FINAL CHORUS — FULL CINEMATIC CLIMAX] I’ve got ghosts Running through my veins Ghosts Dancing in the rain Every part of who I was Still reaches for who you were I’ve got ghosts But maybe that’s alright Maybe love doesn’t disappear Just because it loses light And if you’re only memory now… Then memory will have to do I’ve got ghosts… And somehow… I still love you too ⸻ [Outro — piano + distant footsteps] I don’t need you to haunt me. You already live here.
