The Silence Owns Me

Your shadow still sleeps on the empty bed,

But the warmth is gone, the fire is dead.

I reach for your hand in the midnight air,

But find only echoes that aren't there.

The whiskey lies with a bitter taste,

A cruel reminder of love I chased.

The rain keeps beatin' on my window frame,

Each drop a prayer that calls your name.

The silence owns me, it cuts so deep,

A wound that wakes me when I should sleep.

No dawn will find me, no light will show,

Just a hollow heart that can't let go.

The piano cries where the truth once lay,

Every note's a price I still pay.

The mirror breaks with a stranger's face,

A woman lost in an empty place.

If mercy lived, it would take me home,

But hope is a ghost, I walk alone.

I sing these blues to the endless sky,

Asking the night why love must die.

The silence owns me, it chains my soul,

Tears me apart, leaves nothing whole.

No dawn will heal me, no dream renew,

I'm buried alive in the loss of you.