Empty, Is A Room With My Name (Version 2)

[intro] [slow piano and hollow ambiance, wind and distant door creak] I came back to say goodbye But the door had already forgotten me [verse 1] The couch still holds your weight somehow Even though you’re not here now The mirror fogs, but shows no face Just traces of a former grace [verse 2] Your voice is gone from every room But the silence still sings your tune The kitchen light won’t stay on Like it knows you're long gone [pre-chorus] Even the ghosts here won’t speak They know how to live without me [chorus 1] Empty is a room with my name on it The air is thick with what we omitted I haunt the space you never claimed A frame of love, left unnamed This isn’t heartbreak, this is frost A quiet world where I got lost Empty is the shape you left in me An outline drawn by apathy [instrumental interlude] [reverbed guitar, ticking clock, low heartbeat drum] [verse 3] I dusted off your old cologne Poured two drinks and sat alone You didn’t leave a note, a trace Just absence dressed in human shape [verse 4] And I still whisper when I cry Like you'll walk in and wonder why But the only answer in the air Is the cold that says you’re nowhere there [pre-chorus] And I’m not living, I just stay To be the ghost you threw away [chorus 2] Empty is a room with my name on it Where love once burned, now silence lit I call your name and echo back A hollow thud, a heart gone black This isn’t loss, it’s something worse A slow decay, a silent curse Empty is the way I breathe When no one’s left to hear me leave [bridge] [clean ambient guitar, soft vocal echo loop] I sleep beneath a blanket of might-have-been Wearing grief like second skin [spoken interlude] "You didn’t break me. You just made me invisible." [final chorus] Empty is a room with my name on it You left the lights, but took the comet I shine for no one, fade for none Still waiting for a setting sun If you ever knock, I won’t reply Some rooms are meant to watch you die Empty is the only sound In a house that let me drown [outro] [single piano note fading into silence, whispered: “with my name on it...”]