Monday Aftermath (Empty Store Reset)

[INTRO] Doors locked but the echo stays In empty aisles and fading haze Floor still marked by rolling carts Like footprints on the store’s heart [VERSE 1] Morning light through smudged glass panes No more shouting names or claims Just a broom against the tile And silence stretching out a while Shelves stand bare where chaos fed Half the weekend still in my head But nothing moves, nothing calls Just shadows leaning on the walls [PRE-CHORUS] The scanners all turned off last night Still I swear I hear them in the light Like memory stuck in the air Of every “do we still have that there?” [CHORUS] Monday aftermath, slow and clean Where the noise gets washed between Every scrape and every stain Tells the story of the strain Monday aftermath, standing still No more rush, no more will Just the store and what remains Of a weekend we contained [VERSE 2] Coolers lined up like empty drums Where the thunder of the crowd had come And the garden section’s finally quiet Like it forgot how to riot A broken tag stuck on the floor Says “special buy” from the war before And I lean on the stockroom door Feeling every hour I can’t ignore [PRE-CHORUS] Even the lights feel softer now Like they’re finally learning how To let the building breathe again After everything it’s been [CHORUS] Monday aftermath, slow and clean Where the noise gets washed between Every scrape and every stain Tells the story of the strain Monday aftermath, standing still No more rush, no more will Just the store and what remains Of a weekend we contained [BRIDGE] Somewhere a cart rolls out of line From a slope of forgotten time And I don’t even turn my head I just let it fall instead [FINAL CHORUS] Monday aftermath, lights down low Where only workers ever go And the weekend fades away Like it never meant to stay Monday aftermath, finally through Just me, the floor, and what we knew Of everything we had to do Monday aftermath… reset crew