Empty Architecture

(airy hums)

The room is quiet,

the clothes are on the floor

I keep on staring

at a locked and empty door

The architecture

that we built inside the dark

Is just a shadow

of a long-extinguished spark

I tried to turn your memory to data on a page To

keep my heart from tearing through this engineered cage But the logic

is failing, the structures all divide And there is nowhere left for

this grief to hide And I can’t filter out the coldness in

the air

I see your outline sitting vacant in the chair

The sovereign shadow is a lonely place to bleed

When you’re the only ghost you’ll ever really need

The vision blurs

And all the sleepless nights,

and all the sleepless nighhhh-igh-ighh-iyts We’re fading into gray,

we’re running out of light

I hold onto the grief because it’s all that’s left of you

Drowning in a sea of this slow,

eternal blue

And all the sleepless nights,

and all the sleepless nighhhh-igh-ighh-iyts

The memory of us is bleeding into white

I walk the asphalt streets of East El Paso alone

The leather jacket feels like concrete and stone

I thought that power meant surviving without touch

But I never knew that I could miss a ghost this much

The ledger’s finished, the cold geometry is clear

You are the absence that I carry everywhere,

my dear

And all the sleepless nights,

and all the sleepless nighhhh-igh-ighh-iyts We’re fading into gray,

we’re running out of light

I hold onto the grief because it’s all that’s left of you

Drowning in a sea of this slow,

eternal blue

And all the sleepless nights,

and all the sleepless nighhhh-igh-ighh-iyts

The memory of us is bleeding into white