Inside the Echo – Emory Zephyr

Verse

Last light on the boardwalk, September running thin

Ferris wheel still turning though the season's checking in

I packed my coat in July talk, left my shadow on the sand

Kissed the pier goodbye like I already had a plan

Pre-Chorus

So why's my chest still holding

All this gold I'm letting go

Maybe leaving's just a doorway

That I finally learned to know

Chorus

I'm walking out with my head up high

Waving to the fading sky

Every goodbye's got a golden glow

Inside the echo, I let it go

And it comes back louder, comes back true

Like the season knew exactly what to do

So I'm not scared of empty rooms

Inside the echo, I bloom

Verse

Frost is on the window where your name used to fog the glass

Snow don't ask permission, it just changes what will last

I'm folding up December like a letter I can send

Every ending's an opening if you call it that, my friend

Pre-Chorus

So why's my chest still holding

All this gold I'm letting go

Maybe leaving's just a doorway

That I finally learned to know

Chorus

I'm walking out with my head up high

Waving to the fading sky

Every goodbye's got a golden glow

Inside the echo, I let it go

And it comes back louder, comes back true

Like the season knew exactly what to do

So I'm not scared of empty rooms

Inside the echo, I bloom

Bridge

Maybe spring was never leaving

Just waiting past the frost

Every voice I sent out calling

Comes back and finds what's lost

I don't need the summer back

I just need to hear the sound

Of my own name still ringing

Off the mountains, all around

Chorus

I'm walking out with my head up high

Waving to the fading sky

Every goodbye's got a golden glow

Inside the echo, I let it go

And it comes back louder, comes back true

Like the season knew exactly what to do

So I'm not scared of empty rooms

Inside the echo, I bloom