Hollow Bones, Hollow Hearts (Version 2)

Verse

Glass door swings open on the room I left behind

I see you standing by the window, hands still holding mine

Your face is turned into a mirror of mine own

In the reflection you're not there at all

Just the space that you used to be made whole

I turn my eyes back out across the city lights

The stars are burning low in the pale blue sky tonight

Your voice calls through the glass but it's just my name

A question whispered by a stranger who still claims

To be the one I knew when everything was real

Now you're standing on the sidewalk, counting to ten

Counting how long until your heartbeat forgets me again

I watch the breath go out of you like smoke into thin air

The hollow bones and hollow hearts that are left there

Pre-Chorus

Do you still feel my fingers tracing the shape of yours?

Can you hear my voice in every word that you're for?

Tell me what's gone and tell me if it ever comes back

Is this just a shadow that I'm chasing down a black path?

Where does the ghost of us go when we finally let go?

Tell me, is there a mirror anywhere where you can see how we used to be?

Chorus

Hollow bones, hollow hearts

Empty space in the place where we were apart

I know you don't feel it anymore but I still do

Holding on to something that's long been gone from you

Hollow bones, hollow hearts

Every beat of my chest feels like it's beating for two

You're gone and I'm left here standing in the night

Trying to catch your echo through all these city lights

Verse 2

I walk back into the room we used to call our own

The echoes are dying down to just a hum of stone

Your scent still lingers on the couch where you would sit and wait for me to come home

But every time I reach out, there's no one left here at all

Just this hollow feeling that keeps trying to find its way back into your chest

I know it sounds silly but I'm holding on to what we had

Not because I still love you, but just because it felt like something real was made

The stars are burning low in the pale blue sky tonight

And I'm starting to wonder if this is all there's ever been

Is everything we feel in here just a shadow of a ghost that we used to be?

Do ghosts come back when they're finally free?

Pre-Chorus

Do you still feel my fingers tracing the shape of yours?

Can you hear my voice in every word that you're for?

Tell me what's gone and tell me if it ever comes back

Is this just a shadow that I'm chasing down a black path?

Where does the ghost of us go when we finally let go?

Tell me, is there a mirror anywhere where you can see how we used to be?

Chorus

Hollow bones, hollow hearts

Empty space in the place where we were apart

I know you don't feel it anymore but I still do

Holding on to something that's long been gone from you

Hollow bones, hollow hearts

Every beat of my chest feels like it's beating for two

You're gone and I'm left here standing in the night

Trying to catch your echo through all these city lights

Bridge