Blood in the House

[Intro] (glass cracks / something falls) (quiet) …what did I do… [Verse 1] Every room feels off tonight Every shadow holds its breath Something moving just out of sight Like it’s waiting for a step I hear it shifting down the hall Not the way it used to be Every sound cuts through the walls Like it’s getting close to me [Pre-Chorus] Don’t say his name Don’t make this real If I let it in I won’t be able to deal [Chorus] There’s blood in the house—I can feel it now Every step, every sound’s breaking me down And I know what I did—I can’t take it back But it’s here, it’s alive, and it’s not intact I tried to fix what I couldn’t save Now it’s walking through the life I gave And I don’t know how to shut it out— There’s blood in the house [Verse 2] Doors don’t close the way they should Every light starts cutting out I swear I saw him where he stood— But something’s wrong with how he moves now I try to speak, I try to breathe Try to make it feel the same But the way it looks at me Doesn’t know my fucking name [Pre-Chorus] Don’t tell me stop Don’t tell me run There’s nowhere left For me to go [Chorus] There’s blood in the house—I can hear it now Every wall, every room’s closing in somehow And I know what I did—I can’t take it back But it’s here, it’s alive, and it’s off the track I tried to fix what I couldn’t save Now it’s tearing through the life I gave And I don’t know how to shut it out— There’s blood in the house [Bridge] (quiet) This isn’t him… (beat) This isn’t— (female, soft but cutting) You let it in (male) No— (female) You gave it a place (male, cracking) Stop— (female, sharper) Now it won’t fucking leave [Break Section] It’s in the walls It’s in the sound It’s in the space Between right now (beat) GET IT OUT [Final Chorus] There’s blood in the house—I can see it now Every line that I crossed is right here somehow And I know what I did—I can’t take it back And it’s staring at me like it knows that I tried to fix what I couldn’t save Now it’s everything I tried to change And I don’t know how to shut it out— There’s blood in the house [Outro] (quiet) …it’s still here…