Hollow Light on the Stairwell

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Intro

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Hollow light on the stairwell

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Verse 1

I came home late to a quiet house

Your coat still on the banister post

The kettle dry on the counter

Letter propped against the toaster

You wrote it in blue pen

Your handwriting tilting left

All the things we never said out loud

Sitting on the kitchen shelf

Pre-Chorus

Now I read it twice

Every word feels different

Holding paper that you touched

While I was still gone

Chorus

And the house kept the hours

Every clock in every room

And I stood in the doorway

Watching morning change the tune

And I saw the shape of everything

The way it always was

I just never looked that close before

Verse 2

You mentioned the garden gate

The hinge I never fixed

And the window that won't close all the way

Every March it lets the cold in

Funny how you noticed all the cracks

While I counted miles of road

You were tending what I walked past

Quiet as the falling snow

Pre-Chorus

And the letter ends with sorry

For the leaving and the staying

For every year I spent not saying

What I needed you to know

Chorus

And the house kept the hours

Every clock in every room

And I stood in the doorway

Watching morning change the tune

And I saw the shape of everything

The way it always was

I just never looked that close before

Bridge

Thermostat ticking like a heartbeat

Dust on the piano keys

You always said I'd find the missing note

The day I learned to freeze

Instrumental Journey

Final Chorus

Now the house keeps the hours

But I hold them in my hand

Every clock unwound and folded

Like a promise in the sand

And I see the shape of everything

The way it always was

And I'll fix the hinge this spring

Outro

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Fix the hinge this spring

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The window after all

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