Every Room Is Somewhere Else

[Intro — Whispered, Distant]

Three knocks behind the wallpaper

Footsteps underneath the floor

I was certain I had left this place

So why am I back at the door

[Verse 1]

The hallway stretched beyond its frame

The portraits wore somebody else's face

I passed a clock with backward hands

And heard my footsteps where I hadn't been

A little girl in a velvet dress

Was drawing windows on a staircase

She looked at me and said you're late

Then disappeared through a locked-up gate

I found my coat on a stranger's chair

My mother's voice in the folding stair

Every room had a different view

But every mirror knew what I would do

[Pre-Chorus]

I tried the handle counted to ten

Swore I'd never walk this way again

The door swung wide the lights went thin

And there I was walking in

[Chorus]

Every room is somewhere else

Every door reveals somebody else

I keep running from the life I knew

But the walls keep changing into you

Turn the key tear the map

Find the crack where the shadows overlap

I can't tell what's real or what I've been through

Every room is somewhere else

And every room leads back to you

[Verse 2]

There's a ballroom full of empty chairs

A thousand masks and a flight of stairs

The band plays songs I haven't learned

While paper moons hang where the chandeliers burned

At the table sits a second me

With silver scissors and a cup of tea

She cuts my shadow into strips

And lays them neatly at her fingertips

She says you always leave too soon

You never stay to see the room

You change your name you change your skin

Then blame the house for letting you in

[Pre-Chorus]

I knocked the teacup to the floor

Ran through the curtains found another door

I heard her laughter trail behind

In my own voice in perfect time

[Chorus]

Every room is somewhere else

Every door reveals somebody else

I keep running from the life I knew

But the walls keep changing into you

Turn the key tear the map

Find the crack where the shadows overlap

I can't tell what's real or what I've been through

Every room is somewhere else

And every room leads back to you

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge — Dark, Exposed]

Then I found a room without a door

Just a bare white ceiling and a concrete floor

No crooked clocks no painted eyes

No hidden stairs no false goodbyes

Just a chair beneath a naked light

And a figure sitting perfectly upright

She didn't move when I called her name

She had my hands she had my face

I took one step she took one too

I raised my hand she raised hers too

Then I understood what I couldn't ignore

I wasn't looking through a mirror anymore

[Breakdown — Quiet, Distorted]

I built these halls

I hung these frames

I gave the rooms

Their borrowed names

I locked the doors

I hid the keys

I made a maze

To live inside of me

[Final Chorus — Explosive]

Every room was somewhere else

Every door concealed another self

I kept running from the life I knew

Building new walls to hide behind the view

Break the key burn the map

Let the whole damn house collapse at last

If I can't find the person I once knew

I'll meet the stranger I've been running from too

Every room was somewhere else

Every face was another kind of hell

Now the walls are shaking and the locks come loose

I'm done letting this house decide what I can choose

[Outro — Stripped Back]

Three knocks behind the wallpaper

Footsteps underneath the floor

I stand before the final doorway

I don't knock anymore

I open it

And walk out