After The Echo

**Verse 1**

I’ve been tracing cracks in the ceiling

Like constellations I used to believe in

Every word you left on my tongue

Tastes like smoke from a fire that’s done

I kept your name in my chest like a warning

Beat my heart just to feel something forming

But resurrection feels like a sin

When the ghost knows better than to let me in

**Pre-Chorus**

I tried to save what was killing me

Called it love just to justify the bleed

**Chorus**

You’re an echo in the quiet now

Still loud when the world shuts down

I feel you most when I’m almost whole

Then you fade like a shadow I can’t hold

I’m learning how to breathe without

The weight of you inside my mouth

You’re not gone, you just don’t belong

You’re the afterimage—I’m moving on

**Verse 2**

I dug too deep in the aftermath

Turned regret into a well I couldn’t climb back from

You wore my fear like a crown

Taught me silence is how love sounds

I kept forgiving like it was faith

Kept bending just to keep you safe

But every promise you couldn’t keep

Left another scar under my skin, still asleep

**Pre-Chorus**

I called it hope, but it was decay

A slow goodbye I couldn’t say

**Chorus**

You’re an echo in the quiet now

Still loud when the world shuts down

I feel you most when I’m almost whole

Then you fade like a shadow I can’t hold

I’m learning how to breathe without

The weight of you inside my mouth

You’re not gone, you just don’t belong

You’re the afterimage—I’m moving on

**Bridge**

If I see you in my dreams tonight

I won’t reach out, I won’t rewind

I’ll let you pass like a stranger’s face

Another memory losing its shape

I won’t exhume what I laid to rest

Some love survives by being left

**Breakdown / Soft Outro Lift**

I forgive you

I release you

I don’t need you to disappear

**Final Chorus**

You’re an echo, nothing more

Just a sound I was before

You can haunt the dark behind my eyes

But you don’t get my life this time

I’m finally learning how to stay

When the ghosts all drift away

You’re a chapter I outgrew

A forgotten voice I once knew

**Outro**

Fade out

Fade out

I’m still here

And you’re fading now

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