Random／The Silence We Left Behind

Do you remember... The space between our words... The curtains move against the light Like ghosts of conversations A coffee cup still on the shelf Waiting without a reason The room is small But somehow feels endless now Every corner holds a shadow Of what we couldn't say aloud I thought time would wash it away Like rain across a windowpane But some echoes never leave Now I'm listening to the quiet That settled after you were gone Every unfinished sentence Still keeps singing on And the space between the heartbeats Feels wider than the sky above We're no longer holding on But we're not free of us The night remembers More than we do Streetlights shimmer on wet pavement Like scattered pieces of a dream People pass without noticing The places where we've been The seasons changed their colors The city changed its face But some moments stay suspended Outside of time and place Maybe every goodbye leaves A doorway slightly open Now I'm listening to the quiet That settled after you were gone Every unfinished sentence Still keeps singing on And the space between the heartbeats Feels wider than the sky above We're no longer holding on But we're not free of us If I could gather every word That disappeared into the dark I'd build a bridge across the distance And meet you where the memories are Not to stay Not to return Just to understand Was it love... Or only the echo of it... Now I'm listening to the quiet But it doesn't hurt the way it did Every broken fragment Has found a place to live And the space between the heartbeats No longer feels so far away What we lost became a story That the silence chose to keep Though the road keeps turning onward Though the years continue on A part of us remains here Like the last note of a song The room grows darker... The city falls asleep... And somewhere inside the silence... The last echo fades...