The Echo

Say

it once

Hear

it twice

Every answer Comes back

disguised

I followed your voice through an empty hall

Watched every shadow climb the wall I called your name just to

hear it return A little more distant,

a little more blurred The door behind me disappeared

The farther I walked,

the closer you felt

I couldn’t tell if you were near

Or if I was only hearing myself

Every word comes back changed

Every silence sounds the same I keep looking for the source

But it only calls my name

The echo won’t let me go

It follows wherever I run Turning everything I know

Into what we could’ve become The echo won’t let me go

Your voice is under my own

I keep trying to find the way out But the echo keeps

leading me home Let me go

Let me go

The echo won’t let me go

I found a room filled up with sound A thousand versions spinning

around Some said stay and some said leave Some sounded more like

you than me I covered my ears,

but underneath The rhythm kept moving inside my teeth The quiet cracked,

the ceiling shook

And every voice became a hook

Was it you who called me back?

Was it me who answered first?

Did the memory make the wound

Or did the wound rehearse the words?

If I finally reach the silence Will I know which voice is

mine? Or will everything we buried

Keep repeating through the night?

Your voice

My voice

No difference No choice

Come close

Don’t go

Let me—

Let me go

The echo won’t let me go

It follows wherever I run

Turning everything I know

Into what we could’ve become

The echo won’t let me go

Your voice is under my own

I stopped trying to find the way out Now the echo is

all that I know

Let me go

Let me go

The echo won’t let me—

Go…

Go… Go…