You left your coat on the back of the chair

Still smells like cedar and the Fall in your hair

I tried to move it, but it felt like a crime

Like I'd erase a piece of you just one more time

The kettle still whistles like you're coming back

And I keep setting two plates, I can't face the fact

That silence is louder than your last goodbye

And I'm still asking ghosts to tell me why

You were the storm, and I was the wire

You lit me up and let me burn down to fire

Now I'm just ashes, but somehow I breathe

Haunted by the echo you left in me

It's not the leaving that breaks my mind

It's the echo you left behind

Well I talk to the moon like it's got something to say

It just stares back at me with that same damn face

You once said love was a wilderness call

Now I'm lost in the woods with no map at all

You were the storm, and I was the wire

You lit me up and let me burn down to fire

Now I'm just ashes, but somehow I breathe

Haunted by the echo you left in me

It's not the leaving that breaks my mind

It's the echo you left behind

Maybe you never meant to stay

Maybe two hearts just drift away

But I gave you the parts of me I don't show

Now I'm learning to live with what I don't know

You were storm, and I was the flame

You passed through me and left me changed

I reach for you in dreams that I can't find

Still held by the echo you left behind

Oh, you were the storm, and I was the wire

You lit me up and let me burn down to fire

Now I'm just ashes, but somehow I breathe

Haunted by the echo you left in me

It's not the leaving that breaks my mind

It's the echo you left behind