The Room Absorbs Us

Verse

Foam walls eat the clap of my hands

No echo comes back the way it should stand

Four hundred bodies, the air running thin

Room takes the heat and it locks it back in

Every word that I throw goes flat

Dead room swallows it, nothing comes back

I test my own name on the low end hum

It drops in the black and it never does come

Pre-Chorus

No reflection, no return

Walls keep what the bodies burn

Chorus

The room absorbs us

The room absorbs us

No echo left

The room absorbs us

Verse

Sweat on the panel, the panel stays dry

Sound waves go in and they don't ask why

I clap for the beat but the beat claps alone

Room keeps the pulse like it's always its own

Four walls closer than skin to bone

Nothing comes back, not a hum, not a tone

I shout my own name at the dead front row

Silence returns what a mirror won't show

Pre-Chorus

No reflection, no return

Walls keep what the bodies burn

Chorus

The room absorbs us

The room absorbs us

No echo left

The room absorbs us

Bridge

Not a voice

Not a face

Just the shape

Of the space

Where we stood

Where we were

Room keeps

What we were

Chorus

The room absorbs us

The room absorbs us

No echo left

The room absorbs us