DEZMUND Echoes in the Hotel Room

Room service tray
Gone cold on the table
City view
Through a cracked-up blind
Your hoodie
Still hanging on the chair back
Like it’s waiting
For you to change your mind

I keep your glass
On the same blue coaster
As if that could
Bring you closer

These echoes in the hotel room
Keep calling out your name
I talk to the shadows
Like they’re you
And I’m the one to blame
If love is just a passing guest
Who never tips
Just leaves a mess
Then why’s your ghost
Still making space in my chest
In this hotel room
I can’t check out of yet

Mini bar light
On your side of the mattress
Half the pillows
Stacked up like a wall
I play our fight
On a loop like a movie
Freeze the frame
Right before we fall

I leave your key
On the nightstand
Waiting
Every hour
Feels like hesitating

These echoes in the hotel room
Keep calling out your name
I talk to the shadows
Like they’re you
And I’m the one to blame
If love is just a passing guest
Who never tips
Just leaves a mess
Then why’s your ghost
Still making space in my chest
In this hotel room
I can’t check out of yet

Housekeeping knocks
I say “come back later” come back later
How do you clean
What lives in the air
I pull the curtains
On another morning
But every sunrise
Looks like you were here

These echoes in the hotel room
Still calling out your name
I trace our initials
In the steam
Then watch them fade again
If love is just a passing guest
Who never tips
Just leaves a mess
Why’s your ghost
Still lying down in my chest
In this hotel room
I can’t check out of yet

You showed up late
With your hair all wild
Laughing like
You owned the night
Said “I’m tired of boys
Who don’t know my value
Took my hand
Pulled me into the light

You said
“Promise me one little thing
If I fall apart
You won’t try to fix everything

We’ll leave our hearts like velvet on the floor
Spinning in circles
’til we can’t feel sore
If this is wrong
I wanna be wrong some more some more
You said you’re done with love
But you came back for more
Now we’re sliding
Gliding
Through an open door
Two broken records
Finding the same accord
Hearts like velvet on the floor

You talk in jokes
’cause the truth cuts deeper
I see fear
In your sideways grin
Every time the rhythm
Pulls you closer
You dance away
Then you dive back in

You said
“Promise me one little thing
If I start to care
You won’t ask me where I’ve been

We’ll leave our hearts like velvet on the floor
Spinning in circles
’til we can’t feel sore
If this is wrong
I wanna be wrong some more oh more
You said you’re done with love
But you came back for more
Now we’re sliding
Gliding
Through an open door
Two broken records
Finding the same accord
Hearts like velvet on the floor

Tell me are you scared
Or are you free are you free?
When you close your eyes
And move with me
Every shattered piece
Got a