Where Do Prayers Go

Verse 1

I found your handwriting in an old coat pocket

Smudged but still legible like a ghost I can't forget

You wrote my name three times

Underlined like you were scared to lose it yet

Verse 2

Pale morning light on an empty chair

Your coffee cup still sitting where you left it there

I trace the rim with shaking hands

And beg the silence for a single word to spare

Pre-Chorus

Where do prayers go when nobody's listening

Does heaven hold a phone for the ones still missing

Chorus

I carved your name into my ribs

Just to keep you near

Every breath I take is a eulogy

For the years we'll never share

I'd trade my halo for a heartbeat

I'd trade my wings for your hand

But the choir keeps on singing

In a world you'll never stand

Post-Chorus

Singing oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

For a love I'll never hold

Verse 3

I closed the door so many times

Hoping each slam would be the last goodbye

But grief is patient and love is cruel

It lingers in the hallway like a lullaby

Verse 4

The stained glass catches winter sun

And I've been kneeling here since you were gone

I pray to every saint I know

To let me hear your voice before the da-awning comes

Pre-Chorus

Where do prayers go when nobody's listening

Does heaven hold a phone for the ones still missing

Chorus

I carved your name into my ribs

Just to keep you near

Every breath I take is a eulogy

For the years we'll never share

I'd trade my halo for a heartbeat

I'd trade my wings for your hand

But the choir keeps on singing

In a world you'll never stand

Post-Chorus

Singing oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

For a love I'll never hold

Bridge

Maybe I'm a broken hymn

A half-remembered psalm

I'm screaming in the rafters

Just to feel you in my bones

The candles burn the midnight down

The incense fills my lungs

But holy never felt this hollow

Since you took your tongue

Breakdown

Shatter the stained glass

Bury the bells

Tear down the altar

Where my memory dwells

I gave you everything

You gave me hell

But I'd burn it all again

To hear you yell my name

Chorus

I carved your name into my ribs

Just to keep you near

Every breath I take is a eulogy

For the years we'll never share

I'd trade my halo for a heartbeat

I'd trade my wings for your hand

But the choir keeps on singing

In a world you'll never stand

Post-Chorus

Singing oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

For a love I'll never hold

Singing oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

For a love I'll never hold

Outro

Amen

Amen

Amen

Amen