Your sweater on my chair Dust in the lines you traced Every laugh still hanging In this quiet Crowded space I talk like you’re still here To the shadow by the door Answering my own questions Till my throat is getting sore You said “forever” like a promise I held it like a flame Now every wall is watching Every word still says your name (empty frame) where your face used to live I gave all I had to give (yeah) You walked out But you left your ghost In every corner Every post-it note Empty frame You tore out the page Ripped our story Fed it to your rage I still see you when I close my eyes Empty frame But the picture never dies Your coffee stain on my book Circles where your fingers slid I keep turning to that page Like I’m chasing what we did I sleep on just one side Leave your pillow cold and flat As if you might come crawling back To the ruins of what we had You said “always” like a shelter I carved it in my skin Now every scar is spelling All the ways you caved it in (empty frame) where your face used to live I gave all I had to give (oh) You walked out But you left your ghost In every corner Every post-it note Empty frame You tore out the page Burned our colors Drowned them in your rage I still see you when I close my eyes Empty frame But the picture never dies If I smash the glass Will you finally bleed out of my mind? (hey) If I paint it black Will it ever stop replaying every time? We were clearer than the morning Now we’re static in the rain You’re a wound that keeps on forming I’m the hand that feeds the pain (empty frame) where your face used to live I gave all I had to give You moved on But you left your ghost In every corner Every love you wrote Empty frame I’m clawing the wall Tear this memory out Let it fall I still see you when I close my eyes Empty frame But the picture never dies Your sweater on my chair Your silence in my veins I’m here with what you left me Just a heart and an empty frame
