Hollow Frame

Matthew P. Haubert

Verse 1 C, Em, Am, F, C, Em, F, G, C, EM

I kept your letters in a drawer I stay clear from,
Cause every folded penciled word still smells like you.
Furniture getting cold in all the rooms we use to love in,
I move through them quick in a coma state
My mirrors show a stranger wearing all my old mistakes.

Pre-Chorus  Am, F, C, G

And I keep talking to the silence,
Like I might answer what went wrong.

Chorus F, Am, C, G, F, Am, C, G, F, Am, G, G

I am only a hollow frame,
Leaning on you to keep me standing straight.
You were sunlight through my windowpanes,
I was the fog that didn’t go away.
and if you ever think of me at night,
Know I’m trying to fill spaces I took from you.

Verse 2 Em, Am, F, C, Em, F, G, C, EM

I trace around your footprints in the dust that gathered slowly,
Trying to find the outline of a life we could have spent.
Atleast you were brave enough to leave this sad story,
Im stuck behind never finishing any page

The wall cracks that watched, tell the story for me.

Pre-Chorus Am F C G

Now I keep rewriting all the feelings
That I was terrified to say

Chorus F, Am, C, G, F, Am, C, G, F, Am, G, G

I am only a hollow frame,
Leaning on you to keep me standing straight.
You were sunlight through my windowpanes,
I was the fog that didn’t go away
and if you ever think of me at night,
Know I’m trying to fill spaces I took from you.

Bridge Em, F, C, G,Am, Em, F, G

I never blamed you for the shell ive become.
I built this quiet prison out of everything I could never be.
I swear Im trying to learn to breathe.
Even if the air still tastes like you to me.

Final Chorus

I am only hollow frame,
But I’m finding out there’s less when you didn’t stay
You were the sunlight for my day,
I was the fog that didn’t go away.
If you ever think of me at night,
and if you ever think of me at night,
Know I’m trying to fill spaces I took from you.

Trying to stand on my own for the first time today