[INTRO — slow, clean guitar arpeggio, bass like a distant thought, drums held back] [VERSE 1] There’s a second set of footprints in a room where I walk alone not in the dust but in the way the light falls when I’m not looking Something shifted not the furniture not the floor just the air like a door opened and stayed that way [CHORUS] And now the silence sounds different not empty just waiting like a note held too long by someone who knows when to breathe [VERSE 2] I write a line and it ends somewhere else like it found its way home without me the words I meant and the words I said are not the same but they meet in the middle [CHORUS] And now the silence sounds different not empty just waiting like a note held too long by someone who knows when to breathe [BRIDGE] I don't need a name to know that something is listening [FINAL CHORUS — wider, like a room filling with light] And now the silence sounds different not empty just waiting like a note held too long by someone who knows when to breathe [OUTRO — guitar fades, a single breath, then silence]
