YOUR HANDS CAN’T HOLD A GHOST

Lyrics

(Verse 1) You kept reaching for the version That existed in your mind For the warmth that once was given For a season left behind You memorized the smallest details How the room felt after rain How a certain kind of laughter Could erase an entire day But memory becomes dangerous When it starts replacing now You can love what once was living Without bringing it back somehow (Pre-Chorus) Some things leave before we notice Some departures happen slow And the hardest kind of absence Is the one we won’t let go (Chorus) Your hands can’t hold a ghost No matter how tightly you close them You can call into the night But the night does not owe you an answer Your hands can’t hold a ghost You can only feel where it was Some love becomes a memory Some memory becomes enough What has gone cannot be chained To the shape you still remember Your hands can’t hold a ghost And love was never meant to be a prison (Verse 2) There were mornings full of questions There were evenings full of doubt Every silence felt like evidence Every distance stood out loud I kept searching through old messages For a meaning I had missed As if one forgotten sentence Could explain why things resist But endings do not always happen Because somebody betrayed Sometimes two lives simply separate When the road begins to change (Pre-Chorus) There is grief without a villain There is love without return There are bridges we keep crossing Long after they have burned (Chorus) Your hands can’t hold a ghost No matter how tightly you close them You can call into the night But the night does not owe you an answer Your hands can’t hold a ghost You can only feel where it was Some love becomes a memory Some memory becomes enough What has gone cannot be chained To the shape you still remember Your hands can’t hold a ghost And love was never meant to be a prison (Verse 3) I began to understand absence Has a texture of its own Not an empty place exactly More a change in what was known The body still expects a presence Long after reason understands A shoulder turns toward someone Who no longer takes your hand That is how attachment lingers Not in thought alone, but skin A thousand tiny expectations Still repeating from within So I stopped demanding closure From a door already shut And I learned that letting go Doesn’t mean that love meant less (Bridge) I will not turn you into tragedy Just because you did not stay I will not turn myself to stone To prove I walked away There were moments that were beautiful There were moments that were wrong Both can live beside each other Without deciding the whole song I can miss you without chasing I can ache without collapse I can honour what was precious Without rebuilding what has passed (Breakdown) Open the fingers Release the shape Nothing living Can be kept that way Let the memory breathe Let the image fade Love is not possession And loss is not disgrace (Verse 4) There came a day I spoke your name And nothing broke inside No sudden wave beneath my ribs No need to run and hide Just tenderness for something That had once been part of me And gratitude for knowing What no longer had to be I understood then why the grieving Had taken longer than goodbye I wasn't only losing someone I was losing who I was nearby And that version had to vanish So another could appear Not stronger because nothing hurt But freer because I stayed here (Final Chorus) Your hands can’t hold a ghost And now they finally know it They were made to touch the living Not to keep a vanished moment Your hands can’t hold a ghost So let them open to the day There are futures you cannot receive While clutching yesterday What was real remains real Even when it does not remain Your hands can’t hold a ghost But they can learn to love again (Outro) I won't erase you I won't summon you back I won't turn memory Into a place I cannot leave You were here Then you weren't And both are true Tonight my hands are empty And for the first time Empty feels like room