Echoes of My Last Goodbye

[Verse 1]
I left the light on in the hallway
So my ghost could find its way
But the shadows keep on whispering
Things I never meant to say
I wore a smile like a funeral suit
Kept the pain inside my chest
I wrote a hundred “I’m okay”s
Just to keep you from the rest

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[Pre-Chorus]
But silence was a siren
Calling louder every night
And I drowned in all the things
I never got to make right

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[Chorus]
Tell them I fought it, tell them I tried
That I was just tired, not ready to die
But the weight of the world pulled me under the sky
And these are the echoes of my last goodbye
Yeah…
These are the echoes of my last goodbye

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[Verse 2]
I taped the mirror with black paper
Couldn’t stand to see my face
Just a stranger in my own skin
Begging time to slow its pace
I screamed inside my pillow
Till the fabric knew my name
But no one heard the fracture
No one knew I played the game

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[Pre-Chorus]
They all said “stay strong”
But never showed me how
And I became a ghost
While I was still around

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[Chorus]
Tell them I fought it, tell them I tried
That I kept the hurt hidden behind my pride
But the flames of regret lit the truth in my eye
And these are the echoes of my last goodbye

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[Bridge – spoken with ambient effects / slow echo buildup]
It wasn’t one thing…
It was everything, all at once.
A flood with no warning.
A scream with no sound.
I didn’t mean to go this way…
But maybe now, I’ll finally sleep.

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[Final Chorus – stripped then full band crash in]
Tell them I loved you, even through the fire
I just couldn’t carry the funeral choir
But if there’s a heaven, or something nearby
You’ll hear me…
You’ll hear me…
In the echoes of my last goodbye

Hybrid of Nu Metal and Rap, male