[Female Lead] [Intro] [Soft piano, distant room tone, whispered doubles] I keep hearing people Who aren’t here anymore Not voices Patterns Worse [Verse 1] You ever catch yourself Using somebody else’s phrase Three years after they stopped Being someone you could call? That’s how it starts A little laugh A little habit The way I lock the door twice Because somebody once said The world gets mean after midnight Now I don’t know If that fear is mine Or inherited I got old arguments Living rent-free In rooms I don’t even visit Got compliments I still dress around Got insults I pretend I forgot Funny how people leave And still manage To keep furniture here [Pre-Chorus] [Cello enters, beat begins to fracture] Every room Has somebody in it Every thought Has fingerprints Every silence Sounds familiar I don’t know Where I end [Chorus] [Warm R&B lift with layered harmonies] Welcome to the house of echoes Say my name Hear somebody else Every hallway knows a secret Every mirror keeps a version of myself House of echoes I keep walking Room to room Trying to find The sound I made Before everybody else Moved in too [Post-Chorus] [Chopped vocal fragments] Moved in Moved in Moved in [Verse 2] [More rhythmic, sensual delivery] There’s a song I hate Because you loved it That’s ridiculous Still skip it There’s a restaurant I avoid Because somebody cried there once Not me Doesn’t matter Memory has terrible boundaries I wear perfume You used to like Then get mad When I remember why I cut my hair For myself Mostly See? That word Does a lot of work I can trace whole decisions Back to people Who wouldn’t recognize me now That’s the creepy part You don’t need someone In your life For them To stay in your behavior [Pre-Chorus] [Strings pulse beneath clipped drums] Every room Has somebody in it Every thought Has fingerprints Every silence Sounds familiar I don’t know Where I end [Chorus] [Heavier harmony stack] Welcome to the house of echoes Say my name Hear somebody else Every hallway knows a secret Every mirror keeps a version of myself House of echoes I keep walking Room to room Trying to find The sound I made Before everybody else Moved in too [Glitch Interlude] [Piano note repeats and begins skipping] [Female vocal fragments reverse and smear] [Cello glissando] [Beat disappears] I said that Didn’t I? ... Did I? [Bridge] [Almost dry vocal over piano] Maybe identity Isn’t a voice Maybe it’s a choir You learn to conduct Maybe being yourself Was never about silence Maybe it’s knowing Which voices Get to stay And which ones Have been shouting Long after they earned the right [Build] [Piano grows fuller, R&B drums return] So I’m opening windows Moving furniture Changing the locks On a few old rooms Keeping some things Throwing others out Turns out Not every echo Needs an exorcism Some of them Just need A smaller room [Final Chorus] [Full piano, strings, glitch percussion, layered harmonies] Welcome to the house of echoes Say my name Now I hear myself Every hallway still remembers But the walls don’t get To tell me who I am House of echoes I can live here Without getting lost I don’t need To burn the whole place down I just need To know Which voice is mine [Outro] [Piano only, soft vocal] I keep hearing people Who aren’t here anymore ... That’s okay I’m louder now
