I saw your name on the back of a Polaroid
Faded ink, just a trace of the life we enjoyed
Your laugh still loops like an old cassette
I try to move on, but I’m not there yet
You said time would heal the sting
But it just softens everything
You’re a ghost in my stereo
Drifting slow through the afterglow
Like a song I used to know
But forgot how the chorus goes
And I keep dancing with a shadow
To the beat of “what once was”
I still wear that jacket you left in June
Smells like the sea and your cheap perfume
Everyone asks if I’m doing fine
I lie with a smile and say, “Give it time”
But your voice plays in every song
Like a loop that won’t move on
You’re a ghost in my stereo
Drifting slow through the afterglow
Like a song I used to know
But forgot how the chorus goes
And I keep dancing with a shadow
To the beat of “what once was”
We were color in a grayscale world
Now you’re just silence, a photo curled
Still, I spin that record late at night
Just to feel you one more time
You’re a ghost in my stereo
Sweet and sad like an old hello
I press rewind, I let it go
But you still haunt the undertow
And I keep dancing with a shadow
To the beat of “what once was”
