Afterglow

歌詞

The room still holds your shadow Like smoke that forgot how to leave Streetlights trembling on the ceiling And silence learning how to breathe I left your coffee on the table Cold enough to tell the truth The window cracked, the city leaking Silver noise and midnight blue I thought goodbye would sound like thunder A violent break, a shattered frame But it arrived like falling paper Quietly forgetting my name Your jacket still hangs by the doorway Like it’s waiting for your skin And every ordinary object Knows exactly where you’ve been I keep rehearsing conversations That never made it past my teeth Building castles out of maybe While the tide erased beneath And every second pulls me farther From the version we designed But broken things still catch the sunlight Sometimes brighter when they shine So let it hurt Let it open every locked and quiet room Let it burn Like summer pouring gold across the moon If loving you was learning gravity Then losing you is learning flight I am falling, I am rising I am fire dressed as light The train goes screaming past the station Like it’s late for being free And I stand still inside the platform Letting echoes answer me I wore your words like they were armor Until they turned to borrowed skin Now I’m standing in the mirror Trying to let myself back in There’s a girl beneath the damage Still unfinished, still alive She is tired of being careful She is ready to arrive Maybe endings aren’t destruction Maybe they’re an open door Maybe all this empty space is Something I was made for Maybe grief is just a language Spoken by the ones who stay And maybe healing sounds like footsteps Walking unafraid away So let it hurt! Let it break me into someone I can trust Let it crash! Let the silence turn the memory into dust If loving you was learning gravity Then losing you became my sky I am shaking, I am glowing I was never meant to hide Let it hurt! Let it sing through every fracture in my chest I am not ruined I am rewritten I am becoming I am next Morning slips into the curtains The city opens like a vein And for the first time I don’t whisper your name I just breathe