Silent City Ghosts

[Intro] Silent windows, pale light hums at dawn I walk the lanes that time forgot to mourn [Verse 1] Old corners whispered names I used to know Brick by brick they shed a memory’s glow The tram's last echo floats along the rain-slick street I’m a ghost in my hometown, incomplete [Pre-Chorus] Faces pass in glass where strangers learn my ground I reach for a clue but none is found [Chorus] I watch the skyline change and fade in grey My footprints vanish where the landmarks stay If I could choose, I’d stay behind the veil In the hush where I begin, and fail [Verse 2] New towers rise like ships in a sea of glass Their neon mouths consume the night’s old past I measure heartbeats by the crumble of the past Each missing door remembers where I last stood fast [Pre-Chorus] I whisper names that vanish in the chrome The streets keep changing, I’m not welcome home [Chorus] I watch the skyline change and fade in grey My footprints vanish where the landmarks stay If I could choose, I’d stay behind the veil In the hush where I begin, and fail [Bridge] Maybe I’m not meant to own these streets anew Perhaps the ghost is part of what I’ve always knew [Chorus] I watch the skyline change and fade in grey My footprints vanish where the landmarks stay If I could choose, I’d stay behind the veil In the hush where I begin, and fail [Outro] So I drift through echoes, patient and slight Till quiet city sighs me into night