THE HOUSE BEHIND MY EYES

Lyrics

(Verse 1) There is a house behind my eyes With rooms I never show Hallways built from memory And doors I rarely close Some windows face the morning Some open into rain Some walls still hold the fingerprints Of people who became pain I walk those rooms when night is quiet When the outside world grows thin And every step through hidden chambers Turns the silence back within (Pre-Chorus) There are places no one enters There are keys I never lend Some rooms hold what I remember Some hold what I can't defend (Chorus) There is a house behind my eyes Where every version of me stays Where old voices cross the staircase And disappear into the haze There is a house behind my eyes Where love and fear still share a room Where what I lost still leaves a shadow And what I learned still starts to bloom I don't need to burn the building I just need to know what's mine There is a house behind my eyes And I am learning every line (Verse 2) There are pictures without frames there Faces fading into gold There are promises still breathing Though the hands that made them cold There is laughter in the kitchen There are footsteps on the floor There are people I stopped calling Still arriving through a door Some nights I hear the whispers Of the things I couldn't say Not as ghosts that came to haunt me But as echoes asking space (Pre-Chorus) Every room became a witness Every silence kept a trace And the things I thought had vanished Never really left the place (Chorus) There is a house behind my eyes Where every version of me stays Where old voices cross the staircase And disappear into the haze There is a house behind my eyes Where love and fear still share a room Where what I lost still leaves a shadow And what I learned still starts to bloom I don't need to burn the building I just need to know what's mine There is a house behind my eyes And I am learning every line (Verse 3) I found one room full of hunger One where anger learned to sleep One where childhood kept its questions Folded underneath the sheets There was another full of longing For a life I couldn't name And one that held the quiet terror That nothing ever really changed But deeper still, behind the oldest Wooden door without a key There was something calm and watchful That had always noticed me Not a voice Not an answer Not a figure in the dark Just a presence underneath it Like a distant living spark (Bridge) Maybe memory is architecture Maybe grief becomes a wall Maybe love becomes a window Maybe time remakes it all Maybe every hidden chamber Isn't asking to be cleared Maybe some are meant for listening Till the meaning becomes clear I don't need to force an ending I don't need to name it right Some things only show their faces When the room has lost its light (Breakdown) Open slowly Touch the frame Feel what trembles when you name Don't destroy it Don't obey it Just observe what still remains Every room has held a season Every season shaped the air And the house begins to change The moment I become aware (Verse 4) Now I walk the upper hallway With a steadier kind of breath I can pass the room of sorrow Without moving back into it I can enter where the longing Used to pull me to the floor I can stand beside old memories Without asking them for more And the rooms I once avoided Have become less like a maze When I stop trying to escape them They begin to lose their weight (Final Chorus) There is a house behind my eyes But it no longer owns the night I can walk through every chamber And still return into the light There is a house behind my eyes Full of everything I've known But memory is not a master And the past is not my home I don't need to burn the building I don't need to lock the doors I can honour every room there Without living there once more There is a house behind my eyes And now I know I am not the house I am the one who walks through it (Outro) Some doors stay closed Some open wide Some rooms grow quiet When I stop hiding inside And somewhere in the deepest hall Where every old reflection lies I finally meet the one who watches From the house behind my eyes