House lights low
Dust in the glow
My hands still shake
From the lines you wrote
You said
“This is it
One last fall
Take a broken bow
Give your all”
So I breathe you in
Like a prayer backstage
Every word you left
Burned into the page
We are the ghosts in your throat
Shadows stitched into your coat
Every promise
Every plea
Ringing out in memory
Raise the red velvet sky
Let the past roll by
I am standing in your spotlight
Half afraid to say goodbye
Cry out
Cry out
Let the rafters shake
Love does not leave
It only changes shape
If this is the last curtain call
Hear me now
Hear it all
Every crack in my voice
Is the price of the choice
To stay
To stay
To stay
Stay
Stay
Stay
Though the night pulls away
Stay
Stay
Stay
Through the end of the play
You taught me to fall
Like it meant something
To stand up again
With your name still ringing
Sing on
Sing on
Through the thunder in your chest
Sing on
Sing on
Lay your armor down to rest
Now the seats sit bare
Just forgotten air
Your jacket on the chair
Like you’re still there
I whisper your line
Try to make it sound fine
But it breaks halfway
And that’s our design
If this is the last curtain call
Then let the silence take it all
I’ll leave the script on the floor
Close the door
Close the door
Piano thins to a thread
Choir fades in my head
I bow to the empty hall
And walk off
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