When the Amps Go Cold

Verse 1

House lights half-down on a thousand empty chairs

Road cases open like unfinished prayers

Your jacket still hangs on the mic stand chrome

I play the last chord and the silence comes home

We burned so bright that the wiring gave way

Now the board is dark and I don't know what to say

Pre Chorus

I can still hear the crowd in the rafters above

But the only voice left is the one I still love

Chorus

When the amps go cold, when the steel goes still

I keep the memory louder than the will

You were the fire under every high note I sold

I'm just a ghost here when the amps go cold

Verse 2

Tour bus windows rain like a curtain of glass

Miles of highway, none of them lead back

I wrote your name on a setlist in ink that bled

Folded it twice and left it under the bed

The crew pulled cables like veins from a heart

We packed the love and the leftover parts

Pre Chorus

I can still feel the feedback kissing my skin

But the room won't answer when I call you again

Chorus

When the amps go cold, when the steel goes still

I keep the memory louder than the will

You were the fire under every high note I sold

I'm just a ghost here when the amps go cold

Solo

Bridge

If I turn one stack on, will the past walk in

Or just more silence dressed as a hymn

I leave the power switch where you left me

Halfway between forever and empty

Chorus

When the amps go cold, when the steel goes still

I keep the memory louder than the will

Years may bury the tickets we never sold

But I still wait here when the amps go cold

Outro

Amps go cold... steel goes still...

One light dying on the empty stage