Doorway Ghosts

 

**DOORWAY GHOSTS**

 

 

Verse 1

 

Midnight, heartbeat loud as thunder in my chest,

 

shutters rattlin’, can't tell if it's outside or in my head.

 

Footsteps in the hallway like a secret I don't know,

 

pictures on the floor, your face looking tired and cold.

 

They came in quiet, took the warmth out of the sheets,

 

left the TV on and all my promises incomplete.

 

I keep replaying doors that I never thought would break,

 

each slam a memory that I can't unmake.

 

 

Pre-Chorus

 

I whisper to the darkness, tell it every lie I keep,

 

but the silence answers back and it don't let me sleep.

 

 

Chorus (melodic hook)

 

Home invasion, stole the calm I used to know,

 

left fingerprints on my faith, on the places I can't go.

 

Home invasion, they took the light and left a ghost,

 

now I chase the echoes of the life I miss the most.

 

Home invasion, tryna wake me from my own,

 

they broke the lock on peace and ran it all alone.

 

 

Verse 2

 

Curtains like confessions, windows wide and bleeding cold,

 

I find the jars of comfort smashed, pills of silver and gold.

 

Neighbors say it's nothing, bus stop gossip on the rise,

 

but every creak is orchestra conducting all my lies.

 

I thought my walls were armor, but they learned every seam,

 

now strangers live like satellites inside my dreams.

 

I call for reinforcements but my voice just fades away,

 

they pack my quiet up in boxes and they walk away.

 

 

Pre-Chorus

 

A thousand tiny footsteps carving letters in my floor,

 

I used to feel protected — now I only feel unsure.

 

 

Chorus (melodic hook)

 

Home invasion, stole the calm I used to know,

 

left fingerprints on my faith, on the places I can't go.

 

Home invasion, they took the light and left a ghost,

 

now I chase the echoes of the life I miss the most.

 

Home invasion, tryna wake me from my own,

 

they broke the lock on peace and ran it all alone.

 

 

Bridge (soft to intense)

 

I keep a list of moments that they couldn't steal —

 

a laugh, a late-night candle, the way you used to kneel.

 

But they're moving through my rooms like debt collectors slow,

 

taking all the little things that taught me how to grow.

 

And I'm stuck in doorways, watching shadows rewrite me,

 

trying to find the pieces that they never left to light me.

 

 

Breakdown (half-whispered, half-sung)

 

They don't want my stuff, they want the quiet in my bones,

 

they don't want the pictures — they want the places I call home.

 

So I learn to sleep with one eye open, dreams on hold,

 

count the breaths, count the losses, write the nights in bold.

 

 

Chorus (final, layered)

 

Home invasion, stole the calm I used to know,

 

left fingerprints on my faith, on the places I can't go.

 

Home invasion, they took the light and left a ghost,

 

now I chase the echoes of the life I miss the most.

 

Home invasion, tryna wake me from my own,

 

they broke the lock on peace and ran it all alone.

 

 

Outro (faint, repeating)

 

Doorway ghosts, doorway ghosts, don't leave me in the cold,

 

doorway ghosts, doorway ghosts, take back what they stole.