"Phantom echo"

(Intro) (Sound of rain, distant piano key) The echo of us… still hums in this room… Mmm… (Verse 1) Our love was a language we made in the dark Spelled out in whispers on each other's hearts Now I'm translating silence in a house full of ghosts Reading your absence like words I miss the most The calendar's bleeding red ink and crossed days You're a song I keep playing but it's stuck in a phase Of a bridge that won't build and a chorus that won't land Just the tremble of my voice and the shake of my hand (Pre-Chorus) I cut my fingers tracing where your shadows laid Trying to stitch the night back with the threads that remained But memories unravel… they’re fraying at the seam… And I’m holding onto echoes of a fading dream… (Chorus) Now I’m singing our duet as a solo In a hollow room with a phantom echo Every note I hit just bruises the air ‘Cause your harmony isn't anywhere… I’m dancing with the ghost of your touch And it hurts how much I still feel so much We were a symphony cut short at the peak Now I’m just a vibrating string, frail and weak… (Verse 2) I find your scent in sweaters I shouldn't wear And hear your laugh in songs we swore we'd share They say time is a river, but mine’s standing still A frozen photograph on a windowsill I built a home inside the “what if” and “might” Sleeping in the could-have-been every night My reflection’s a stranger wearing your favorite shade A museum of choices that we never made (Pre-Chorus) I cut my fingers tracing where your shadows laid Trying to stitch the night back with the threads that remained But memories unravel… they’re fraying at the seam… And I’m holding onto echoes of a fading dream… (Chorus) Now I’m singing our duet as a solo In a hollow room with a phantom echo Every note I hit just bruises the air ‘Cause your harmony isn't anywhere… I’m dancing with the ghost of your touch And it hurts how much I still feel so much We were a symphony cut short at the peak Now I’m just a vibrating string, frail and weak… (