Still

there’s a deafening silence

so loud I can’t hear myself think

echoing down these empty hallways

the blank white covers walls of memories

When pain becomes so familiar

It’s forever knocking at your door

loneliness has become your best company

See there once was a story unfolding

like footprints covered by the ocean’s tide

beneath it time kept flowing

but never seen on either side

This silence can get so loud

It’s enough to drive a crazy man wild

memories can seem so alive

this life in the past can make you blind

When your favorite guest is an empty chair

best listener a ghost you don’t even know is there

It’s like an open wound that won’t stop bleeding

time drowned out by bloody despair

because when the sun comes up at three am

you find comfort costumed as agony

the best harmonies are heard in the sound of tears you’ve cried

Let hope becomes the song's reprise

See there once was a story unfolding

like footprints covered by the ocean’s tide

beneath it time kept flowing

but never seen on either side