Shadow of the Once I Was

There's a hollow in my chest
Where the light forgot to stay
Every echo that I follow
Feels a lifetime far away
And I'm walking through the remnants
Of a man I used to know
Just a flicker in the corner
Fading slow

Every road I try to follow
Turns me back into the night
Every thought becomes a shadow
That keeps swallowing my sight
And I reach into the silence
For the one I used to be
But he slips right through my fingers
Every time he brushes me

I'm the shadow
Of the once I was
I'm the shadow
Of the once I was

There's a whisper in the doorway
Calling softly from the past
Pulling threads of who I wasn't
Through the pieces that still last
And the weight of my reflection
Presses deeper into me
Like a heartbeat left forgotten
In a room I'll never see

I'm the shadow
Of the once I was
I'm the shadow
Of the once I was