Verse 1 I signed my name in borrowed ink, To walls that learned the shape of grief. The rent was cheap, the silence wasn't, Every shadow stared through me. Footsteps crossed an empty ceiling, Two-seventeen, the same each night. No one lived above my breathing, Still something paced until first light. Pre-Chorus Every photograph remembered... Someone I had never seen. Standing just beyond my shoulder, Waiting somewhere in between. Chorus Welcome home. The house remembers every wound I've ever known. Every hallway wears my heartbeat like a stone. I locked the door... The lock was never meant to keep the darkness out. It only kept me in. Welcome home. Verse 2 Mirrors held their gaze too long, Smiled after I walked away. My reflection learned my language, Mine forgot my face. Three slow knocks inside the drywall, Someone breathing through the grain. Not a ghost... just something patient, Trying on my name. Bridge Burn the pictures. Watch them return. Break every window. The house still learns. Run to the doorway. The hallway bends. Leave with your body... Your soul never did. Final Chorus Welcome home. You were never just a tenant all alone. Every room was carving out another bone. The walls don't haunt... They harvest every version you become. Until there's nothing left... Just another chair. Another photograph. Another stranger wearing my skin. Welcome home. Outro If you hear footsteps overhead... Don't look up. If the mirror smiles first... Don't smile back. If the apartment whispers your name... It's already too late.
