[Verse 1]
Door half closed
Light thin like a blade
Cartoons still on
But the room changed shape
Plates on the table
Glass on the floor
Somebody breathing heavy
Somebody locking doors
Little hand shaking
But it’s tucked in a sleeve
Learned to disappear
So they’d finally leave
Counted every footstep
Like it might be the last
Whole life paused
On a six-year past
[Chorus]
Basement echoes
Still talk in my head (yeah)
I grew up, but the house
Never left my chest
I walk through the world
Like I’m still on trial
Got a grown man face
With a scared-kid smile
Basement echoes
Rattling the frame
Try to sleep it off
But it calls my name (calls my name)
[Verse 2]
Heard love in curses
Heard care in a slap
Photo on the mantle
Didn’t show none of that
Schoolyard questions
“Why you always so quiet?”
They didn’t see the nights
I rehearsed every silence
Stared at the ceiling
Tracing cracks like maps
Trying to find a way out
Of a bedtime trap
Thought it was normal
Thought it was me
Till I met another kid
With the same cracked dream (uh)
[Chorus]
Basement echoes
Still talk in my head
I grew up, but the house
Never left my chest
I walk through the world
Like I’m still on trial
Got a grown man face
With a scared-kid smile
Basement echoes
Rattling the frame
Try to sleep it off
But it calls my name
[Bridge]
I keep the lights on
Even when it’s day (day)
Still flinch at keys
When they start to shake
I’m learning new voices
Soft, slow, kind
Teaching that child
He can step outside
[Chorus]
Basement echoes
Still talk in my head
But the sound gets small
Every word I shed
I walk through the world
With a different stride
Same old scars
But they glow this time
Basement echoes
Fading from the frame
I’m rewriting the house
When I say my name (say my name)