The Emptiness Machine - Aliza
I wake up to a hollow sound
Another day spinning me around
Your name still lives inside my chest
Like a question I never asked
I talk to walls that used to hear you
Laugh at jokes that aren't true
I wear my smile like a disguise
But it's heavy behind my eyes
I gave you all the best of me
You left the rest to rust
And now love feels mechanical
Running on what was
I'm caught in the emptiness machine
Running on memories
Every heartbeat feels routine
Since you walked away from me
I press replay on broken dreams
Trying to feel something real
But love just left me stuck between
What was us and what I feel
Your words still echo in my head
Things you swore but never said
I built a home inside your arms
Didn't know they'd pull the alarm
Now silence fills the space you kept
I measure time by what we left
I keep pretending I'm okay
But I'm fading more each day
I have the weight of all the truth
Why you left without a piece
Now I'm learning how to breathe in pieces
But maybe
I'm caught in the emptiness machine
Running on memories
Every heartbeat feels routine
Since you walked away from me
I press replay on broken dreams
Trying to feel something real
But love just left me stuck between
What was us and what I feel
If love is the thing you learn to lose
Then I was never taught the rules
I stayed when leaving hurt less
You left without the mess
I'm tired of surviving echoes
All the love I couldn't save
But even broken hearts still hope
For better days
I'm caught in the emptiness machine
But I'm pulling out the wires
I won't let your ghost define
Every unlit fire
I'll stop chasing yesterday
And all the words you couldn't mean
I'm learning how to walk away
From the emptiness machine
I loved you loud, I loved you true
Even when it broke me too
Now I'll choose me
And set myself free
