Floorboards1

[Verse 1] The streetlights hum a broken tune In the gray of half-past June I trace the cracks along the wall Where your shadow used to fall The radio spits static lies Through the static in my eyes And every step I take alone Is a stone I should have thrown [Chorus] And I’m walking through the neon rain Trying to wash away the stain Of a love that never learned to fade In the city we both made But the echoes keep on calling Through the silence that keeps falling And I’m just a ghost in the machine Of a world I’ve never seen [Verse 2] The bassline thumps beneath my skin A rhythm I can’t fit in You left a note on the fridge door Saying “I don’t want this war” Now the dishes pile like monuments To all our failed experiments And the clock hands crawl like wounded things Through the songs the silence sings [Bridge] I remember how the floorboards creaked When the words we never spoke leaked Through the gaps in every line Now the past is just a design I keep redrawing in the dark Trying to find a single spark But the wires are all cut clean And the stage is just a dream [Chorus] And I’m walking through the neon rain Trying to wash away the stain Of a love that never learned to fade In the city we both made But the echoes keep on calling Through the silence that keeps falling And I’m just a ghost in the machine Of a world I’ve never seen [Outro] The streetlights hum a broken tune In the gray of half-past June I trace the cracks along the wall Where your shadow used to fall And the echoes keep on calling Through the silence that keeps falling And I’m just a ghost in the machine Of a world I’ve never seen