(Verse 1) You used to feel like firelight On the coldest nights of me, Now your voice sounds like an empty house Where love used to breathe. I kept searching through your eyes For the man I used to know, But every time I reached for you There was nobody home. You wore his face so perfectly I almost believed it too, But the shadows started speaking In the things you’d say and do. And I swear the cruelest heartbreak Wasn’t watching you walk away— It was watching you disappear While you still stayed. (Pre-Chorus) Now I wake up from the nightmares With your name inside my chest, Trying to bury all the echoes You left living in my head. (Chorus) You became a ghost in the skin Of the man I once loved, A stranger wearing memories Like they were enough. And every “I love you” sounded colder Than the silence we became, Now I’m dancing with your shadow In the ruins of your name. I don’t hate you, I just miss who you were… Before the ghost moved in. (Verse 2) You painted me the villain For surviving what you broke, Like my scars were proof of madness Instead of proof I choked. I shrank myself to keep the peace, Turned my voice down to survive, While you fed the storm inside you And called it being alive. And maybe you were hurting too, Maybe you were lost somewhere, But pain doesn’t give permission To leave nightmares everywhere. (Bridge — soft piano + violin) I forgive you… But forgiveness isn’t staying. I wish you peace… But I can’t keep breaking. So I’ll bury what we were Under moonlight, under rain, And let the graveyard keep the version Of us I couldn’t save. (Final Chorus — emotional explosion) You became a ghost in the skin Of the man I held close, And loving you felt like grieving Someone nobody else noticed. But I survived the haunting, I survived the cold within, And tonight I finally say goodbye To the ghost in your skin. (Outro — whispered) I hope you find yourself again someday… But I can’t lose myself searching for you anymore.
