Echoes of Your Name - ArlenaZara
The house is quiet
The clock ticks on the wall
I hear the silence answering my call
A dusty sunbeam cuts across the air
Illuminating an empty chair
I try to watch TV to drown out the noise
But my heart keeps turning back to your voice
They say that silence is a peaceful sound
But it's where the memory of you is found
In spaces between the quiet nights
In the flicker of the street lamp lights
Through every open door and every closed window pane
I hear the echoes of your name
They whisper through the hallway
They rattle in my chest
But in this weary, broken heart to the test
Just the hollow, aching, lonely refrain
The echoes of your name
I moved your pictures, put them out of sight
Hoping I could sleep through just one night
I rearranged the furniture, I changed the sheets
But I can't escape the ghosts in these streets
A friend asked how I was
I said,"I'm doing fine."
But I'm crossing every single boundary line
Drowning in the history
Lost within the cost of everything we were and everything we lost
In spaces between the quiet nights
In the flicker of the street lamp lights
Through every open door and every closed window pane
I hear the echoes of your name
They whisper through the hallway
They rattle in my chest
But in this weary, broken heart to the test
Just the hollow, aching, lonely refrain
The echoes of your name
Sometimes it's a whisper, sometimes it's a shout
A phantom limb I keep reaching out
For a touch that's gone, a warmth that's disappeared
Everything I ever hoped for, everything I feared
The hardest part of moving on, they say
Is learning how to breathe when you're away
In spaces between the quiet nights
In the flicker of the street lamp lights
Through every open door and every closed window pane
I hear the echoes of your name
They whisper through the hallway
They rattle in my chest
But in this weary, broken heart to the test
Just the hollow, aching, lonely refrain
The echoes of your name
Echoes of your name
Fading, fading slow
The last part of you that refuses to go
Just echoes in the dark
Leaving their mark
On a broken heart
The echoes of your name