Keyboard Shadows

Yeah, light is low in the room

Just the screen glow, casting shadows

Shattered keys, shattered me

Listen

I saw the notification pop up on the screen

A digital ghost tearing apart the scene

You typed out the end in a paragraph of grey

Taking the sunshine and throwing it away

Did you think that the pixels would soften the blow?

Leaving me stranded in the afterglow

No voice in my ear, just the click-clack sound

Of my foundation crumbling onto the ground

Shattered keys, you wrote my heart out of place

Should’ve been brave enough to look at my face

Sent the goodbye in a bubble of blue

Now I’m stuck here retracing the shadow of you

Shattered keys, it’s a digital sting

To the rhythm of nothing, the song that you sing

I’m scrolling backwards through the history we made

Watching the bright colors start to fade

Could you not find the words to speak them out loud?

Or were you hiding behind the digital cloud?

It’s cowardly motion, a passive decay

You took the easy road and ran far away

Now the silence is heavy, the air is too thin

Where does the ending and the lesson begin?

Shattered keys, you wrote my heart out of place

Should’ve been brave enough to look at my face

Sent the goodbye in a bubble of blue

Now I’m stuck here retracing the shadow of you

Shattered keys, it’s a digital sting

To the rhythm of nothing, the song that you sing

I’m over the trauma, I’m past the regret

But the method you chose is the one I won’t forget

Real love demands a gaze, eye to eye

Not a text message tethered to a cold goodbye

Yeah, it’s cold, it’s so cold

So keep your keyboard, keep your hollow relief

You left me the scraps and a mountain of grief

But I’m rising up higher, past the text on the glass

Watching the season of your weakness pass

I deserved a moment, I deserved the truth

Not a shallow ping in the bloom of my youth

I’m moving on, yeah, I’m clearing the thread

Leaving the ghost of the words that you said

Shattered keys, you wrote my heart out of place

Should’ve been brave enough to look at my face

Sent the goodbye in a bubble of blue

Now I’m stuck here retracing the shadow of you

Shattered keys, it’s a digital sting

To the rhythm of nothing, the song that you sing

Just a tap on the glass

Let the moment pass

Shattered keys, yeah

Moving on now

No more screens

Just me

Fade out