Rooms in my Head Lyrics

Verse 1 I keep rooms in my head like a house built out of years. Some are warm with old laughter, some are flooded with tears. There’s a hallway made of questions, there’s a staircase built of dread— and I walk it like a pilgrim through the rooms inside my head. Pre-Chorus Some doors stay locked, rusted hinges in the dark— I know what sleeps behind them, and they’re waiting for a spark. Chorus In the rooms in my head, I meet the ghosts I’ve fed. I touch the walls that whisper every word I left unsaid. There are places I won’t enter, there are things I leave for dead— but I’m never truly lonely in the rooms inside my head. Verse 2 There’s a mirror in the foyer that lies more than it shows, reflecting old versions of me like a garden that stopped growing. There’s a music box that trembles with a song I never play— it reminds me of a lifetime I survived but couldn’t stay. Pre-Chorus And some nights I wander with a candle barely lit, trying not to wake the memories that don’t know how to quit. Chorus In the rooms in my head, I keep the living with the dead. I hear their quiet footsteps on the floorboards as I tread. Every secret has a chamber, every promise has a bed— and they all keep their vigil in the rooms inside my head. Bridge (haunting, rising) If I opened every doorway, let the windows all collapse, would the ghosts turn into sunlight, or would they tighten their grasp? If I burned the whole house down, let the past be molten red— would I finally be empty of the rooms inside my head? Final Chorus outro In the rooms in my head, I’ve made peace with what I dread. I’m a keeper of the stories that were carved in what I bled. And the echoes make a chorus that will haunt me till I’m shed— these rooms inside my head.