[Verse 1] I can feel the weight of wings I never grew Reaching for the sky with arms that won't come through There's an ache where something should have been A hollow space beneath my skin Nerves are firing signals to a ghost The version of myself I needed most My brain keeps reaching for what isn't there Grasping at the empty air [Chorus] Phantom limbs of all I'll never be Haunting every possibility My body knows what it was meant to hold Stories that will never be told Phantom limbs reaching through the void For the life that got destroyed Before it ever had a chance to start Missing pieces of my heart [Verse 2] I can feel the guitar I never learned to play Fingers moving through the chords I threw away There's a phantom child that I'll never hold Dreams that died before they got too old My mind maps out the paths I didn't take Every single choice I didn't make Sensation without form, pain without a source Mourning an alternate course [Chorus] Phantom limbs of all I'll never be Haunting every possibility My body knows what it was meant to hold Stories that will never be told Phantom limbs reaching through the void For the life that got destroyed Before it ever had a chance to start Missing pieces of my heart [Bridge] The neuroscience says it's all in my head But the grief I feel is real instead My soul keeps reaching for what could have grown In the garden I never sown Every "what if" is a severed nerve Every "might have been" I didn't deserve The mirror neurons fire and misfire still For the space these ghosts won't fill [Verse 3] There's a phantom voice I never got to use Words I swallowed down, truths I had to lose My throat remembers songs I didn't sing The person I was meant to bring Into the world but kept locked away Now she haunts me every single day I can feel her trying to break through The version that was true [Chorus] Phantom limbs of all I'll never be Haunting every possibility My body knows what it was meant to hold Stories that will never be told Phantom limbs reaching through the void For the life that got destroyed Before it ever had a chance to start Missing pieces of my heart [Outro] Some amputees say the phantom fades with time But these ghosts of mine just seem to climb Higher up my spine with every year Whispering what could have been here Phantom limbs that ache and burn For roads I'll never get to turn The missing pieces calling out my name Nothing left but phantom pain [END]
