Rooms Without Morning

[Verse 1]
I found your name
in the hinge of the door
in the paint
that kept flaking for years

Every room
keeps your shape in the dust
every step
makes the plaster remember

[Pre-Chorus]
And I speak
to the dead air
like it owes me
an answer

The walls lean in
like they know
what I buried
in winter

[Chorus]
Don’t leave me here
don’t leave me here
I’m still inside it
I’m still inside it

Your name on my tongue
like a lock on my throat
Don’t leave me here
don’t leave me here

[Verse 2]
The mirror
kept one extra face
when I passed by
it stayed behind

There was rain
in the chandelier bowl
and a choir
in the chimney throat

I wore my grief
like a borrowed dress
too heavy
for my shoulders

[Pre-Chorus]
And I hear
your footsteps
in the rug
in the rafters

If this house
is a mouth
then I’m every
unfinished sentence

[Chorus]
Don’t leave me here
don’t leave me here
I’m still inside it
I’m still inside it

Your name on my tongue
like a lock on my throat
Don’t leave me here
don’t leave me here

[Bridge]
I thought time
would take the edges
smooth the blood
out of the wallpaper

But midnight
is a patient animal
it keeps feeding
on my halo

If you were ever
mine at all
why do I bleed
when I say goodbye

[Final Chorus]
Don’t leave me here
don’t leave me here
I’m still inside it
I’m still inside it

Your name on my tongue
like a lock on my throat
Don’t leave me here
don’t leave me here

Don’t leave me here
don’t leave me here
I’m still inside it
I’m still inside it