The Hallway's Empty Now | AtLast Music

Lyrics: Your empty locker stares at me Down the hall, blue paint peeling I still remember how you'd lean While my coward heart stayed kneeling I sat behind you every day For four long years, no words, just ache You left a pencil on my desk I kept it like a holy mistake I saw your name in fading ink I heard the whole room go still You looked at me like you knew I might have said it, if I would The hallway's empty now And I let you go The words I didn't say Still cut me slow I'm drowning in the ghost Of what we could've been And the bitter taste of never Letting you in I found the yearbook on the floor Page fifty-three, your note in red “Stay sweet” with a heart for me And every word I never said That last December by the oak You looked at me and tried to stay I smiled, then turned my back And walked the only chance away I saw your hand reach out to mine I felt the future slip away I was alive, but I was not Brave enough to make you stay The hallway's empty now And I let you go The words I didn't say Still cut me slow I'm drowning in the ghost Of what we could've been And the bitter taste of never Letting you in Everybody's gone The parking lot is bare I reach into the dark And touch thin air Time won't turn around It leaves me here alone I buried all my love In the quiet understone The hallway's empty now And I let you go The words I didn't say Still cut me slow I'm drowning in the ghost Of what we could've been And the bitter taste of never Letting you in Too late So lonely now Just an empty desk And a heart that broke itself Because it never learned to speak