Echoes in an Empty House by Homemade Shine
Echoes in an Empty House
Verse 1
Keys still hanging by the door
Like you might walk in once more
Your coffee cup, your crooked chair
Dust where laughter used to live there
Every wall knows your name
Every room still feels the same
Pre-Chorus
Silence settles, thick and loud
I swear I hear you walking around
Chorus
There are echoes in this empty house
Your voice in the places you’re not now
Floorboards talk when I move about
Like they’re trying to figure us out
I shut my eyes, but you don’t leave
You’re every memory haunting me
You’re gone somehow, but still around
In the echoes of this empty house
(Empty house)
Verse 2
The clock keeps time like it’s a crime
Dragging seconds through my mind
Your sweater hangs where you left it last
Smells like love I can’t outlast
I talk to you like you stayed
Like goodbye was never said
Pre-Chorus
Every night when the lights go down
I hear our ghosts making their rounds
Chorus
There are echoes in this empty house
Your voice in the places you’re not now
Doorways whisper, hallways shout
All the things we didn’t talk about
I shut my eyes, but you don’t leave
You’re every memory haunting me
You’re gone somehow, but still around
In the echoes of this empty house
(Empty house)
Bridge
If walls could cry, they’d beg me to stay
Or maybe beg me to walk away
I trace your name in the quiet air
Like love’s still living somewhere in here
(Somewhere in here)
Breakdown
One more night, one more sound
Just me and you not making a sound
Final Chorus
There are echoes in this empty house
Your laugh caught in the up-and-downs
Every corner lets you out
Just when I think you’ve burned out
I shut my eyes, I still believe
Some part of you still lives with me
You’re gone somehow, but heaven knows
This place won’t let you go
(Won’t let you go)
Outro
Someday I’ll leave, turn out the lights
Let the silence win the fight
Till then, I’m not alone somehow
With the echoes in this empty house
(Empty house)