Inside the Echo

Verse

The candle wax has pooled and cooled

Since you last stood inside this room

Your scarf still hangs behind the door

I trace the thread I can't ignore

Four fifteen and the kettle's cold

The hallway clock ticks slow, then old

Pre-Chorus

Do I let the silence in

Or hold the shape of where you've been

Something here still hums and glows

Something here still knows

Chorus

I'm holding on to the echo

The shiver left when the sound has gone

I'm holding on to the echo

Soft and low, but it carries on

It carries on

Verse

The garden keeps your footprint's ghost

Pressed in frost like a photograph

The porch light flickers, amber, gold

The wind rehearses what you told

I fold the letter, smooth the crease

Not for grief now, but for peace

Pre-Chorus

Do I let the morning win

Or keep the ember warm within

Something here still hums and glows

Something here still knows

Chorus

I'm holding on to the echo

The shiver left when the sound has gone

I'm holding on to the echo

Soft and low, but it carries on

It carries on

Bridge

Maybe holding on was never

Keeping still or standing frozen

Maybe it's the way the river

Carries what the banks have chosen

Downstream, changed, but never broken

Chorus

I'm holding on to the echo

The shiver left when the sound has gone

I'm holding on to the echo

Soft and low, but it carries on

And even when the quiet swallows

Every note the years have grown

I'm holding on to the echo

Turning into a song of my own

A song of my own