The Man I Left Behind

[Intro] A hollow room… A mirror facing down The sound of someone leaving… Without making a sound [Verse 1] I walked the halls, a stranger to the glass Watching seasons fade and shadows pass I wore your expectations like a second skin Gave you every surface, kept nothing within A faded portrait hanging in the air I lived within the silence of your stare A familiar face in public, absent from my own I gave my light to everyone, and faced the dark alone [Pre-Chorus] And then the picture faded The role I played… erased I stood without a script now And came face to face [Chorus] Oh, the man I sold was waiting in the deep A secret promise he was sworn to keep He held the warmth I spent on everyone The golden embers of a dying sun He smiled at me, a face I used to know And lit the path the hollow echoes go [Verse 2] Invisible, I drifted through the crowd A quiet whisper shouting far too loud I looked for me in eyes that wouldn't see And found a void where I was meant to be But in the dark, a hand reached out for mine The version of myself I left behind ! He didn't come with anger, didn't come with blame Just opened like a doorway… softly spoke my name [Pre-Chorus] No longer facing outward No longer split in two I reached across the silence And finally came through [Chorus] Oh, the man I sold was waiting in the deep A secret promise he was sworn to keep He held the warmth I spent on everyone The golden embers of a dying sun He smiled at me… I recognized his face Two halves of the same silence, finding grace [Bridge] No more divisions, no more walls between The visible and what was left unseen The empathy I poured into the void Returns to heal the parts that I destroyed There is a version of you that survives every version you become He doesn't need you to be perfect He just needs you to come home Come home Come home ! [Final Chorus] Now I look into my own eyes And finally know the face I see Not the man you needed me to be But the one who's always been free We merge like rivers running to the sea A clearer version, finally set free He held the warmth I spent on everyone Two shadows into one… the journey done [Outro] One shadow now, one light... Walking out from the night... The man I sold… came back The world I left… held on And in the space between two mirrors I finally belong