Empty Rooms

Second floor, third door on the left
Key behind the loose brick, bereft
Of the voices that once filled this space
Now there's nothing but this empty place
Dust motes dancing in the grey light
Everything exactly as I left it that night
But the silence screams what isn't there
Love that vanished into empty air

Blankets still arranged the way she left them
Corner where she slept, I can't forget them
Tiny fingerprints upon the glass
Watching for a love that couldn't last
Seven years of "Mama, will you stay?"
Now the echo fades a little more each day
Washbasin still bears her small handprint
Evidence of trust that never bent

Empty rooms hold memories like ghosts
Of the love that mattered most
Every corner whispers what we had
Now there's nothing but the sad
Empty rooms where laughter used to live
All the love I had to give
Echoes off these silent walls
Where nobody comes, nobody calls

Her scent still lingers on the other side
Where she slept before she chose to hide
From the truth that love had found a way
Into hearts that thought they'd never stay
Twenty years of sharing every breath
Now she's gone, another kind of death
Formal note upon the wooden table
"Sorry" - like that word could ever heal

This was just a place to count my earnings
Now I see what I was really learning
How to trust, how to open up my heart
How to love before it fell apart
"Used to hide before I learned there were things
Worth coming out for" - how the memory stings
Now those things are gone, the room feels small
Like I never learned to love at all

Sit here on the edge of this old bed
Where we talked about the life ahead
Three of us against the world we said
Now I'm talking to the fucking dead
Every object tells a story true
Of the family that I thought I knew
But families break and people leave
And all you get is time to grieve

Empty rooms hold memories like ghosts
Of the love that mattered most
Every corner whispers what I've lost
And the goddamn, heartbreaking cost
Empty rooms where laughter used to live
All the love I had to give
Means nothing when there's no one here
Just the silence and the fear
That I'll never learn to love again
In these empty rooms of pain

Second floor, third door on the left
Key behind the loose brick, bereft
Turn the lock and walk away
From the love of yesterday
Empty rooms... empty heart...
Everything falls apart...
Thought I learned what love could do...
Now I don't know what is true...