[Intro]

(Slow, heavy footsteps on wet pavement, a low bass thrumming)

[Verse 1]

The tea has turned to ice inside the cup

The ceiling fan is tired of looking up

I’ve lost the knack of keeping secrets locked

The hollow hall is where the silence walked

[Verse 2]

I’m wearing out the patterns on the rug

Each shadow offers me a velvet shrug

The kitchen light is blinking like a ghost

To all the things that I have haunted most

[Chorus]

The gravity has failed since you’ve been gone

I’m drifting in a house where lights are on

But nobody is home to hold the line

I’m drowning in a glass of cheapened wine

[Chorus]

I’m losing touch with every solid thing

The winter’s bite without the hope of spring

A puppet dancing on a severed string

To every bitter song you used to sing

[Verse 3]

I tried to name the cracks upon the wall

To catch the pieces before they start to fall

But hands are just a sieve for pouring sand

In this deserted, gray and lonely land

[Bridge]

[Instrumental solo: Gritty, distorted electric guitar with heavy reverb]

The edge is calling with a lover’s sigh

Beneath a bruised and starless city sky

[Outro]

Fading in the dark

Leaving just a spark

Where we left our mark

It’s falling apart.

(Distant siren fades into silence)