[Intro] There should be someone here. [Verse 1] I set three plates upon the table, Then put one back without a thought. I stand there holding extra silver, Trying to remember what I forgot. I leave the hallway light still burning. I keep one bedroom door ajar. Sometimes I wake beside the window, Certain someone called from far away. [Pre-Chorus] My mind says nothing has been taken. My body doesn’t feel the same. It keeps the shape of something missing. It reaches for a stolen name. [Chorus] My empty arm remembers A weight I cannot name. It bends around the absence In every picture frame. There’s a hollow at my shoulder, There’s an ache beneath my sleeve. If I never held somebody, Why does letting go hurt me? [Verse 2] A photograph lies in the kitchen. My daughter watches while I stare. I’m smiling with my arm extended, Holding nothing but the air. She asks me who was standing with us. I tell her no one, then she cries. For half a second, I see green eyes. Then the memory closes mine. [Pre-Chorus] The heart preserves what thought abandons. The skin still knows where fingers lay. Something lived inside this silence Before the silence learned my name. [Chorus] My empty arm remembers A weight I cannot name. It bends around the absence In every picture frame. There’s a hollow at my shoulder, There’s an ache beneath my sleeve. If I never held somebody, Why does letting go hurt me? [Bridge – daughter’s voice] His name was Noah. [Mother] Who? [Daughter] You held him in that picture. You kissed him when he cried. You measured him against the doorway. You stayed there through the night. [Mother] His name was— [Silence] What were we talking about? [Instrumental Break] [Final Chorus] My empty arm remembers What my mind was made to lose. It searches through the darkness For a hand it cannot choose. There’s a heartbeat in the hollow. There’s a warmth that shouldn’t be. If I never loved somebody, Who keeps reaching back for me? My empty arm remembers. My empty arm still knows. The mind can lose a person. The body never lets them go. [Outro] I set three plates upon the table. This time, I leave them there.
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