The Missing Room

Lyrics

There’s a hallway
Under my sleep
Narrow and pale
Too deep to keep

The wallpaper
Whispers names
I almost know
But cannot say

I count the doors
They count me back
One opens white
One opens black

But one is gone
Where one should be
A quiet room
Calling me

There is a missing room
Inside of me
A place I lost
Before memory

I hear it breathing
Softly through
The life I lived
But never knew

A chair is waiting
With no one there
Dust keeps moving
In folded air

A music box
Without a key
Plays half a song
Then hides from me

I ask the floor
What it has kept
It answers low
In borrowed steps

The house leans in
The ceiling breathes
Something hidden
Knows my grief

There is a missing room
Inside of me
A place I lost
Before memory

I hear it breathing
Softly through
The life I lived
But never knew

If I enter
Will I stay
Will the years
Unlearn my name

If I open
What was sealed
Will the wound
Become a field

There is a missing room
Inside of me
A place I lost
Before memory

I hear it breathing
Softly through
The life I lived
But never knew

There is a missing room
Still calling me
From somewhere close
To where I used to be

There’s a hallway
Under my sleep
One door missing
One door keeps me