I keep the light on when I shouldn’t
it hums against the quiet air
your shadow’s gone but something lingers
like you’re still standing there

the mirror blurs around the edges
but I don’t wipe it clean
I let it hide the way I’m breaking
in places you’ve never seen

I sing it low so it won’t shatter
before it leaves my chest
every note feels like a fracture
I’m trying not to press

and it slips, it slips, I feel it slipping
every word I try to hold
like water running through my fingers
like something I can’t control

and I break, I break, I hear it breaking
in the echo of this room
every sound comes back a little louder
every line goes back to you

the tiles are cold beneath my shoulders
I lean into the ache
the air is thick with things unspoken
and every breath might break

my voice don’t land where it should land
it trembles, then it falls
but I keep singing through the silence
like you might hear it all

and it slips, it slips, I feel it slipping
every note I try to save
like a memory losing colour
like a name I couldn’t say

and I break, I break, I keep it breaking
let it crack inside the sound
if I hold it any tighter
I might never get it out

if I sing it like I mean it
will it hurt a little less
or just echo in the hollow
you left inside my chest

it slips… it slips…
and I can’t hold it now
it breaks… it breaks…
and I don’t stop it now