Much Closer Than That

Intro

Don't look behind you

Don't turn around

Some things hear their names

When they're spoken out loud

Verse 1

I live inside the silence

Between your passing thoughts

In every empty hallway

Where the light begins to rot

I watch the curtains breathing

When no wind moves at all

I listen from the ceiling

I listen through the walls

And every time you're lonely

You make it easier to enter

Pre-Chorus

You think you're alone

That's how I get closer

Chorus

I am the thing that follows you home

The voice beneath the floorboards

The shape behind the door

I am the hunger in the dark

The shadow in your blood

The reason empty rooms

Never feel empty enough

You hear me every night

You just don't know it's me

Verse 2

I stood beside your bedframe

On nights you couldn't sleep

Collecting all the secrets

That nobody else could keep

I know the names you've buried

The wounds you've hidden well

I've memorized the sound you make

Right before you break

Pre-Chorus

Every fear you've ever had

Opened another door

Chorus

I am the thing that follows you home

The voice beneath the floorboards

The shape behind the door

I am the hunger in the dark

The shadow in your blood

The reason empty rooms

Never feel empty enough

You hear me every night

You just don't know it's me

Bridge

Don't be afraid

You've been feeding me for years

With every doubt

With every regret

With every abandoned prayer

I grew stronger

You grew weaker

And now we're almost the same

Breakdown

Closer...

Closer...

Can you feel it?

Closer...

Closer...

Say my name

Final Chorus

I am the thing beneath your skin

The echo in your heartbeat

The dark behind your eyes

The chain around your dreams

I am the storm that's finally arrived

The shadow you've been running from

Your whole life

And when the world goes silent

When everyone else leaves

You'll find me waiting

Exactly where I've always been

Outro

Don't look behind you

I'm not there

I'm much closer than that