[Intro - Ethereal synth pads, a slow, reverbed heartbeat, distant wind-like sound] *(Whispered, layered vocals) Gone... just echoes now... (Verse 1) Float above the city lights, they blur a different way tonight No reflection in the glass, watchin' all my moments pass The penthouse view, the velvet ropes, all those dizzy, fragile hopes The diamond glitter, platinum gleam, faded like a half-forgotten dream Heard my name on whispered air, a heavy silence hangin' there This new dimension, cold and vast, the die already cast. (Pre-Chorus) Every touch, a phantom feel The laughter, once so sharp and real Now just a whisper in the haze Through these disembodied days… (Chorus) 'Cause I can't take it with me, no, this ain't no place for gold These memories, I hold them tight, but the story's been told Can't take it with me, all the love, the hurt, the highs Just a specter in the static, under endless, starless skies The feel of your skin, the taste of the rain It all stays behind, an echo of the pain. (Verse 2) See you walking through our rooms, wrapped in familiar, sweet perfumes Your shoulders heavy with the grey, wish I could wipe your tears away Remember nights we owned the dark? Left my indelible, fleeting mark The songs we sang, the roads we drove, that crazy, reckless kind of love Now I'm just a breath you might mistake for wind upon the window lake A silent witness to your grief, a love beyond belief. (Pre-Chorus) Every promise, now a ghost The things I cherished, loved the most Scattered like ashes in the breeze Begging for a moment's ease… (Chorus) 'Cause I can't take it with me, no, this ain't no place for gold These memories, I hold them tight, but the story's been told Can't take it with me, all the love, the hurt, the highs Just a specter in the static, under endless, starless skies The feel of your skin, the taste of the rain It all stays behind, an echo of the pain. (Bridge) Oh, if I could send a sign, cut through this ethereal line Tell you that the essence stays, in a thousand different ways The music lingers, soft and low, in places only we would know But this new silence, it consumes, beyond these empty, starlit tombs. What was real? What did it mean? Just a flicker on a broken screen. (Chorus) But I can't take it with me, no, this ain't no place for gold These memories, I hold them tight, though the story's been told Can't take it with me, all the love, the hurt, the highs Just a specter in the static, under endless, starless skies The feel of your skin, the taste of the rain It all stays behind, an echo of the pain. (Outro) Stays behind... can't take it... no... (Whispers) Let it go... let me go... [Ethereal synths swell and slowly fade with the sound of distant wind, heartbeat stops] Just an echo... (Silence)
