Cold illusion

I see the shadows dancing on the bedroom wall Another night I'm waiting for the sky to fall You speak in riddles but the meaning is so clear There's nothing left but static and this heavy fear I bought the flowers and I bought into the lie Now I'm just watching all the embers slowly die Your touch is frozen like a winter in the street A bitter rhythm and a cold, metallic beat We played the part until the curtains turned to grey Now there is nothing left for either us to say Because the love is not real, it's just a ghost in the room A hollow echo in the middle of this gloom No, the love is not real, it's just a trick of the light A fading memory that's vanished in the night It's a chemical reaction that has gone to seed A desperate hunger for a soul you'll never feed I check my phone to see if you have left a trace But all I find is emptiness and wasted space You're like a phantom moving through the hallway floor I don't even recognize your face no more The gold has rusted and the silver's turned to black We're on a train that's running off the broken track I gave you everything and found it wasn't enough You traded diamonds for this cheap and plastic stuff Now I am sitting in the silence of the dark Waiting for a match to find a single spark Because the love is not real, it's just a ghost in the room A hollow echo in the middle of this gloom No, the love is not real, it's just a trick of the light A fading memory that's vanished in the night It's a chemical reaction that has gone to seed A desperate hunger for a soul you'll never feed Don't try to fix it with a shallow, empty word That's just the saddest sound that I have ever heard I'm cutting cables and I'm burning down the bridge Leaving my heart inside a frozen, empty fridge The trap is set and now I'm finally breaking free From all the versions of the man you wanted me to be It's over now, the credits roll across the screen The dirtiest ending that the world has ever seen Because the love is not real, it's just a ghost in the room A hollow echo in the middle of this gloom No, the love is not real, it's just a trick of the light A fading memory that's vanished in the night It's a chemical reaction that has gone to seed A desperate hunger for a soul you'll never feed