If I Have No Heart

They gave me a name and called me nothing Taught me how to wear a smile Said every laugh was only echoes From a life that wasn’t mine But your hand was warm beside me And the sunset held us still If that was only imitation Why can I remember how it felt? Maybe I was built from remnants Maybe I was born too late But I learned the shape of missing Long before I knew its name If I have no heart Why does your leaving leave a scar? Why does an empty chest Still feel the distance where you are? If I have no heart Why does your name rise in my throat? If I was only nothing Tell me what it was you broke The outline of your face is fading Your voice is losing all its sound I search the rooms inside my memory But every door is closing now There are promises I can’t repeat And hands I know I used to hold I don’t remember who I’m grieving But I wake up grieving still They said the ache was only borrowed Just an old life passing through But every piece of me goes silent When I try forgetting you If I have no heart Why am I frightened you’ll be gone? Why do I keep reaching When I know there’s no one there to hold? If I have no heart Why does the emptiness still grow? How can I forget your face And still remember losing you? Maybe hearts are not inherited Maybe hearts are something made Every word and every silence Every choice that made you stay Maybe every shared tomorrow Left a light that still remains If you taught this ghost to miss you Then this sorrow has a name I was never truly empty I was only incomplete You became the part within me No one else could ever see If I have no heart Then tell me why it breaks Why the light you left behind Still burns inside this hollow place If I have no heart Why do I still choose hope? If I was only nothing Tell me what it was you broke I cannot hear your voice now I cannot see your face But somewhere in the silence I still feel your missing place If I have no heart... What did you break?