Vertigo — The Ember

Verse

Suitcase open on the bed we shared

Folding up the shirt still holding your air

Morning light comes soft through the blinds

Coffee going cold, I'm running out of time

The porch light flickers like it knows

Every door I've ever had to close

I trace the doorframe where we marked the years

Steady hands but I'm swimming in tears

Pre-Chorus

So how do I stand here

When the ground won't hold

How do I let this

Turn to something whole

Chorus

This is vertigo, this spinning floor

Loving you and letting go before

I'm falling up instead of down

Somewhere sweeter waits beyond this town

This is vertigo, and I'm still here

Dizzy with the love, not just the fear

Verse

Boxes labeled in your handwriting

Every room an echo, every wall still singing

I find your note stuck behind the frame

Six words that never called you by your name

The taxi's waiting at the curb outside

Engine humming like a lullaby

I used to think an ending meant I'd fall

Now I'm not so sure it's an ending at all

Pre-Chorus

So how do I stand here

When the ground won't hold

How do I let this

Turn to something whole

Chorus

This is vertigo, this spinning floor

Loving you and letting go before

I'm falling up instead of down

Somewhere sweeter waits beyond this town

This is vertigo, and I'm still here

Dizzy with the love, not just the fear

Bridge

Maybe every goodbye's just a door

Tilting sideways to a bigger floor

Maybe losing you was how I'd learn

The world keeps turning, and so do I, in turn

Chorus

This is vertigo, this spinning floor

Loving you and letting go before

I'm falling up instead of down

Somewhere sweeter waits beyond this town

This is vertigo, and I'm still here

Dizzy with the love, not just the fear

Outro

Steady now, the spinning slows

Out the door and into all I don't yet know