Written on the Keys

[Verse 1] There’s a room across the hallway Where the curtains never move But every night around eleven Someone plays the same old tune Just a few unfinished measures Soft enough to disappear Like a voice behind a doorway Like a name I almost hear I told myself it meant nothing Just the building settling down But the melody kept finding me When there was no one else around [Pre-Chorus] And every note became a question Every silence left a mark I started following the music Like a candle through the dark [Chorus] You were written on the keys In every chord I couldn’t name In every pause between the heartbeats In every shadow of the phrase I was falling for a mystery For a face I’d never seen You were gone before I found you But you were written on the keys [Verse 2] There were letters in the floorboards There were pictures without eyes There were tapes of quiet laughter And a hundred small goodbyes Every page revealed a stranger Every line became a thread Leading deeper through the story Of the life you never said Someone loved you from a distance Someone watched you disappear Someone buried every answer But they couldn’t hide you here [Pre-Chorus] And every clue became a promise Every promise pulled me through Till the woman in the silence Started feeling almost true [Chorus] You were written on the keys In every chord I couldn’t name In every pause between the heartbeats In every shadow of the phrase I was falling for a mystery For a face I’d never seen You were gone before I found you But you were written on the keys [Instrumental Passage] [Verse 3] Then one night the door was open And the music filled the room You were standing by the window Like a flower out of bloom You said, “I left to keep him living I disappeared to keep him free But I never meant the song I left To bring somebody back to me” I had dreamed you into colours I had made you more than real But your eyes were full of endings And the kind of truth that heals [Bridge] We had one night without questions One night no one could erase You placed your hands upon the piano And I finally knew your face No promises, no forever No reason we could stay Just a room, a song, a secret And the light before the day [Final Chorus] You were written on the keys In every chord I couldn’t name In every pause between the heartbeats In every shadow of the phrase I was falling for a mystery Now the mystery had seen me You were there and then you vanished But you were written on the keys [Outro] Now the room across the hallway Stays as silent as a grave But sometimes just before midnight I can hear the notes you played And I don’t ask where you’re going I don’t call you back to me Some loves are never meant for holding They are written on the keys