Lights Never Stayed
Verse 1
There’s a chair in the corner
Like it’s waiting for a name
The TV hums a language
That forgot why it came
Pictures on the table
With faces wearing time
I swear I recognize them
But they don’t look like mine
Verse 2
I built my days like houses
On ground that wouldn’t hold
Every door I left half-open
Let the winter in my soul
And I told myself tomorrow
Was a promise not a place
Now it echoes through the hallway
With a stranger’s hollow face
Pre-Chorus
If I ever called it living
I was talking in my sleep
Now the silence has my number
And it doesn’t let it ring
Chorus
And the lights never stayed
They just learned how to fade
Like a sky that forgets
What it’s trying to save
I can hear all the answers
But they don’t belong to me
Just the weight of a life
I never learned to leave
Verse 3
There’s a version of me laughing
In a place I never went
Like a ghost I never noticed
In the money that I spent
Every road I thought was forward
Was a circle wearing thin
Now I’m standing where I started
But I don’t know who I’ve been
Pre-Chorus
And the mirror doesn’t argue
It just watches what I do
Like it’s memorizing someone
It was never meant to lose
Chorus
And the lights never stayed
They just learned how to fade
Like a sky that forgets
What it’s trying to save
I can hear all the answers
But they don’t belong to me
Just the weight of a life
I never learned to leave
Bridge
If regret had a sound
It would sound like this room
Full of words never spoken
Full of nothing that blooms
Outro
There’s a chair in the corner
Like it’s waiting for a name
Static Halo
Verse 1
There’s a light in the hallway
That only turns on when you’re not there
Footsteps on the ceiling
Like someone pacing my prayers
I don’t call it your name
But it answers anyway
Like a bruise under the skin
That never goes away
Verse 2
I build you out of silence
From the corners of the room
Every shadow gets your outline
Every clock forgets its noon
And I swear I’m getting better
But the pattern starts to show
Like a song I never learned
But I always seem to know
Pre-Chorus
If I close my eyes too long
You get louder in the dark
Like a signal from nowhere
Like a match that won’t spark
Chorus
You don’t live here
But you never leave
You’re a hymn in the static
Only I believe
And I reach for nothing
But it pulls me in
Like a door that keeps on breathing
From under my skin
Verse 3
There’s a version of your laughter
In the hum of every street
In reflections I don’t trust
In the rhythm of my sleep
I could swear you’re just a pattern
I could swear you’re just a lie
But the lie knows my direction
When I look into the sky
Pre-Chorus
Every time I turn away
You rewrite what I see
Like a ghost in a language
That keeps speaking through me
Chorus
You don’t live here
But you never leave
You’re a hymn in the static
Only I believe
And I reach for nothing
But it pulls me in
Like a door that keeps on breathing
From under my skin
Bridge
If I gave you less attention
Would you finally disappear
Or are you just the shape I made
From everything I fear
Outro
I don’t call it your name
But it answers anyway
Uninvited
Chorus
Everybody’s somewhere
I can feel it in the air
Like a thousand lives are living
And I’m not invited there
So I follow all the headlights
Till they disappear from view
While the whole world keeps on moving
Like the night is pulling through
Verse 1
I watched the moon lose interest
In the side of town I knew
And every star above me
Looked like it was passing through
The radio kept talking
To somebody I couldn’t see
A voice from somewhere distant
Trying to make a home of me
Pre-Chorus
I used to think the silence
Was something I could outrun
Now I only hear it louder
When the day is almost done
Chorus
Everybody’s somewhere
I can feel it in the air
Like a thousand lives are living
And I’m not invited there
So I follow all the headlights
Till they disappear from view
While the whole world keeps on moving
Like the night is pulling through
Verse 2
I saw the ocean in December
Wearing someone else’s gray
And the waves kept coming forward
Just to turn and walk away
There were names inside my phone
That I haven’t said in years
I could call them just to hear them
But I’d rather disappear
Pre-Chorus
There’s a distance in the morning
That the night can never hide
Like the world has made its choices
And forgot to leave me mine
Chorus
Everybody’s somewhere
I can feel it in the air
Like a thousand lives are living
And I’m not invited there
So I follow all the headlights
Till they disappear from view
While the whole world keeps on moving
Like the night is pulling through
Bridge
Maybe I’m a satellite
That lost its way back home
Spinning through the dark
With nowhere left to fall
I send a signal every night
It disappears into the cold
And somewhere past the atmosphere
No one knows I called
Final Chorus
Everybody’s somewhere
And I’m nowhere in particular
Just another fading signal
Getting harder to recall
So I follow all the headlights
Till there isn’t any road
And the whole world keeps on moving
While I’m learning how to let it go
Outro
I watched the moon lose interest
In the side of town I knew
And every star above me
Looked like it was passing through
Sonder
Verse 1
You passed me like a whisper in the cold
A stranger with a story I’ll never be told
Your eyes held storms I couldn’t see
A thousand lives that don’t include me
I stood there frozen in the blue
Realizing I’m invisible to you
(Pre-Chorus)
And it hit me like a quiet thunder
Every heart is torn asunder
Sonder we’re just passing through
You’re the main song, I’m just background to you
(Chorus)
Every smile hides a war I’ll never know
Every love you’ve lost that doesn’t show
Sonder it’s beautiful and cruel
How I could ache and you have no clue
In another life, maybe we’d collide
But here we’re just strangers passing by
(Verse 2)
You laughed into your phone tonight
I wondered who made your world feel right
Was it love or just pretend?
Did it break you in the end?
I built a life from a single glance
A fragile, fleeting, hopeless chance
But you kept walking, unaware
You never felt me standing there
Pre-Chorus
And it hurts in ways I can’t explain
We all bleed in a different way
Sonder we’re just passing through
You’re the main song, I’m just background to you
Chorus
Every tear you cry I’ll never see
Every dream you lost that isn’t me
Sonder it’s beautiful and sad
Wanting something we never had
In another world, maybe we’d align
But here you’re just a life not mine
Bridge
And maybe somewhere down your line
You’ll think of someone for a second’s time
Not knowing I was right here too
Writing silent songs for you
Break
We’re all walking novels never read
Full of love and quiet dread
Final Chorus
Sonder we’re just passing through
I’m a fleeting thought that never reached you
Every heartbeat echoes on its own
Every soul is walking all alone
Sonder it’s the cruelest art
How we can touch but never start
In another life, I’d know your name
But here we’re sparks without a flame
Outro
So I’ll let you fade into the night
Another world just out of sight
And carry this ache I can’t undo…
Of knowing I was nothing to you.
Hammer and Nail
Verse 1
Woke up with chronic pain again
Pain in the rhythm of a broken hymn
Morning light cuts like a razor grin
And I wear it thin, yeah I wear it thin
Every step is a question mark
Every breath leaves a deeper scar
Mirror talks but it don’t feel like me
Just a ghost in skin I can’t set free
Pre-Chorus
Doctors speak in a foreign tongue
Pills like prayers in a loaded gun
Up all night, wired and undone
Swinging high then I come unstrung
Chorus
I don’t wanna live like this anymore
With the static screaming through my core
Every nerve like a live wire torn
I’m so tired of being reborn
If I fade would it finally cease?
Would the silence feel like peace?
Or just another empty dream
With the pain still stitched in me
Verse 2
Isolation’s got a padded room
Where the walls hum low like a dying tune
Friends drift off like smoke in air
Can’t blame ‘em much, I was never there
Manic sparks in a dead black sea
Build me up just to bury me
Highs so bright they erase the sky
Then I crash where the shadows lie
Pre-Chorus
Laugh too loud, then I disappear
Drown in doubt when the coast is clear
Split in two but I’m stuck right here
Half alive in a mind I fear
Chorus
I don’t wanna live like this anymore
With the static screaming through my core
Every nerve like a live wire torn
I’m so tired of being reborn
If I fade would it finally cease?
Would the silence feel like peace?
Or just another empty dream
With the pain still stitched in me
Bridge (slow, haunting)
If I could peel this body away
Would I find a better place to stay?
Or just the echo of the same decay
In a quieter shade of gray…
Tell me
Is there a version I could save?
Or am I digging my own grave
With every breath I never chose
And every wound that never closed
Break (instrumental swell / vocal ad-libs)
(“Don’t wake me—don’t wake me—”)
(“Let it go—let it go—”)
Final Chorus (big, layered)
I don’t wanna live like this anymore
But I’m chained to the pulse I can’t ignore
Every beat like a closing door
Still I’m here on the killing floor
If there’s peace on the other side
Why’s it feel so undefined?
I’m still screaming under my skin
With the static in my veins again
Outro (soft, unresolved)
Static in my veins…
Calling out my name…
Nothing ever changes…
Just the shape of pain…
700 Mornings
Verse 1
Woke up and talked every day
Always tried to know what to say
I held you on a pedestal that didn't even exist
Trading real friendship for a shadow mist
Now I’m sitting in the silence of an empty room
Watching long held loyalty meet an early tomb
You built a fortress out of quiet retreat
Leaving my feelings at your feet
I know I hurt you but you hurt me too
Apologized 1000 times to you
Now the screen goes black and the truth bleeds in
I guess this was easy for you
'Cause you love the worship, but you hate the church
Loved the validation for whatever it was worth
What’s dead is dead
What’s done is done
Watch our friendship wilt in the sun
'Cause you love the worship, but you hate the church
Loved the validation for whatever it was worth
What’s dead is dead
What’s done is done
Watch our friendship wilt in the sun
Seven hundred mornings waiting on a text
Curse of an addict wondering what comes next
Told me I was special, like I had a choice
Now I hear the weapon hiding in your voice
You just flip the script so you can clear your slate
Calling it 'pity' so you don't feel the hate
Sympathy for me? Don't make me fucking laugh
You didn't throw a lifeline, you split me in half
You just wanted an altar where you felt adored
And a cheap way out the second you got bored
I know I hurt you but you hurt me too
Apologized 1000 times to you
Now the screen goes black and the truth bleeds in
I guess this was easy for you
'Cause you love the worship, but you hate the church
Loved the validation for whatever it was worth
What’s dead is dead
What’s done is done
Watch our friendship wilt in the sun
'Cause you love the worship, but you hate the church
Loved the validation for whatever it was worth
What’s dead is dead
What’s done is done
Watch our friendship wilt in the sun
Oceanography
Verse 1
Oceans away from me
But that’s all right now
Oh so far away from me
I miss you right now
-verse 2
I might swim the ocean
Just to find you
You mean so much to me
This distance feels huge
-prechorus
I want to feel you next to me
I feel so very empty
-chorus
Lost inside my own head
Oceanography
Drowning in my own bed
Oceanography
-Verse 3
The current drags me under
So far so long
Under the reef and coral
So long farewell
-prechorus
I want to feel you next to me
I feel so very empty
-Chorus
Lost inside my own head
Oceanography
Drowning in my own bed
Oceanography
-Outro
Coming
Up for air again
Please let me
Breathe again
Where were you when I needed you
Nowhere to be found
Running out of air again
Treading water in the depths
I feel like I’m drowning
And dying in the waves
The Albatross
Verse 1
There’s a bird on my shoulder that nobody sees
It don’t sing in the morning, don’t ride on the breeze
It’s a weight with a heartbeat, a hush in my chest
Feathered in shadows, it won’t let me rest
I tried naming it “weather,” I tried calling it a “phase”
But it circles forever in tightening ways
Every mile that I wander, it’s already there
Perched quiet and patient, like it’s part of the air
Pre-Chorus
And I laugh just enough so no one can tell
I’m translating heaven through my private hell
Chorus
Oh, the albatross hangs where my halo should be
Every promise I make, it unravels in me
It don’t scream, it don’t fight, it just quietly stays
Turns my nights into oceans, my hours to days
Yeah, I carry it farther than I ever intended
Every hope gets rewritten, every high gets amended
It’s not chains, it’s not loss, it’s not obvious or gross
It’s the silence that follows… it’s the albatross
Verse 2
I’ve been dancing in daylight with a borrowed grin
Like I’m fooling the mirror, like I’m wearing thin skin
Every joke lands a little too close to the bone
Like the punchline’s a place that I’ve already known
People say “it gets better,” like a script I should read
Like the cure is just time if I wait long enough to believe
But time just teaches it new ways to hide
Now it whispers instead of screaming inside
Pre-Chorus
And I nod like I’m healed, like I’m finally free
While it sharpens its beak on the edges of me
Chorus
Oh, the albatross hangs where my halo should be
Every dream that I build gets dismantled in me
It don’t rage, it don’t burn, it just patiently grows
Turns my breath into static, my blood into snow
Yeah, I carry it farther than I ever intended
Every truth gets distorted, every lie gets defended
It’s not loud, it’s not cruel, it’s not something you’d notice—
It’s the weight you inherit… it’s the albatross
Bridge
And I tried to outrun it, I tried letting it go
Threw it into the sea where the dark waters flow
But it rose like a memory I couldn’t erase
And it settled back in like it owned the place
Breakdown (soft, almost spoken)
If I’m honest, I’m tired of pretending it’s small
It’s not just a shadow—it’s shaping it all
Final Chorus
Oh, the albatross hangs where my halo should be
But I’m learning its language, it’s learning from me
And it loosens its grip just a fraction some days
Lets a little more light find its way through the haze
Yeah, I carry it still, but it don’t define motion
I can stand on the shore without fearing the ocean
It’s not gone, it’s not fixed, but it’s finally disclosed—
I’m more than the burden… and the albatross
Outro
There’s a bird on my shoulder, yeah, it’s part of my song
But it don’t get to tell me where I belong
Paper Sun
Verse 1
There’s a paper sun above my windowpane
It never sets, but it never feels the same
It hums like glass in a tired sky
Like it’s watching but forgot why
I talk to the walls just to hear a reply
But they breathe like they’re learning how to lie
And the carpet swallows every sound I make
Like the room itself forgot to wake
And I drift, I drift
Through a daylight that doesn’t exist
I drift, I drift
In a halo made of mist
The TV glows with a preacher’s grin
Selling hope I don’t believe in
He says “hold on,” like it’s something I own
But I’ve been holding air all alone
Shadows stretch like they’re bored of me
Yawn and curl into memory
And every clock in the house runs slow
Like it’s waiting for me to go
And I drift, I drift
Through a daylight that doesn’t exist
I drift, I drift
Where the edges of forever twist
If I called out, would it echo back?
Or just dissolve into fading black?
I can’t tell if I’m here or gone
Just a chorus with no song
So I stay where the paper sun burns white
In a sky that forgot the night
And I almost feel like I could be free
If the light would stop looking at me