(Guitar and female humming)

You haunt my memory

A ghost so vividly

Like a forgotten oath

It rusts inside of me

Your quiet silhouette

A promise unfulfilled

The silence in the walls

A space that can't be filled

I trace the outline of your breath

A chilling softness before the death

Of every hopeful word we never truly spoke

A fragile vessel that we broke

Closer

Closer

We stood on cracking ice

A fragile work of art

Two saints of hollow prayers

With starving vacant hearts

No final cleansing fire

No wreckage to be found

Just echoes of a song

That never made a sound

Your fingers hesitated too long to be alive

Like a captive bird of prey

Caught inside a sigh

And every time you turned to leave

Left empty space

Your absence etched a line

Of longing on my face

There are wounds that gleam like gold

A story better left untold

Still I would choose this quiet corrosive ache

For just a phantom chance for goodness sake

Now every empty room feels incomplete

Like a phantom pulse that's moving in the street

I lost no future held within your hand

Just a version of myself that still could stand

You taught me something haunting

Sometimes the ghost of what was wanted

Hurts more than the betrayal

Fades slow

Rust and dust