When you live alone
dark synth-pop, electronic, ambient
When you live alone
dark synth-pop, electronic, ambient
Lyrics
Intro
Verse 1
The key turns slowly in this hollow hall
Footsteps echo where no voices call
The lights are burning but the house feels dead
I pour a drink and face the night instead
The clock is ticking like a dying breath
Another evening sentenced to regret
When you live alone
When you live alone
Chorus
Silence cuts like steel through empty halls
Emptiness feels real when the darkness falls
Walls begin to breathe and swallow me inside
No one left to leave, no one left to hold my arm
Memories grow loud in the dead of night
I disappear into the fading light
Quiet turns to knives that carve out my name
This hollow life will never be the same
When you live alone
When you live alone
When you live alone
Verse 2
The bed is wide but the warmth has disappeared
I reach across for someone who’s not here
Reflection shows a face I barely know
A stranger living in the afterglow
The phone stays quiet, no messages arrive
Another evening trying to survive
Chorus
Silence cuts like steel through empty halls
Emptiness feels real when the darkness falls
Walls begin to breathe and swallow me inside
No one left to leave, no one left to hold my arm
Memories grow loud in the dead of night
I disappear into the fading light
Quiet turns to knives that carve out my name
This hollow life will never be the same
When you live alone
When you live alone
When you live alone
Verse 3
I cook for one and eat without a sound
The laughter from the street feels out of bounds
The clothes still hanging in the wardrobe space
Remind me daily of a missing face
The nights are longer than they used to be
When you live alone there’s only me
Bridge
If someone knocked and asked to come inside
Would I even know how to open wide
Final Chorus
Silence cuts like steel through empty halls
Emptiness feels real when the darkness falls
Walls begin to breathe and swallow me inside
No one left to leave, no one left to hold my arm
Memories grow loud in the dead of night
I disappear into the fading light
Quiet turns to knives that carve out my name
This hollow life will never be the same
When you live alone
When you live alone
When you live alone
Outro
When you live alone…
When you live alone…
You….alone