Where Your Laugh Used to Live

There’s a corner by the window Where the evening light comes in Where you used to lean and laugh With a bottle full of sin The floorboards still remember Every step you used to give But the loudest sound of silence Is where your laugh used to live

Some ghosts don’t haunt the night They haunt the life you knew

Where your laugh used to live There’s a hollow in the air Like the walls keep reaching But you’re no longer there And the house holds its breath Like it’s waiting for a spark But the echo of your laughter Is the loneliest part

The old dog still looks up When the gravel shifts outside Like he’s certain any minute You’ll come walking back inside And I swear I hear you sometimes In the creak of that old stair Like the past keeps leaning forward Trying to meet me halfway there

Funny how a memory Can break a man in two

Where your laugh used to live There’s a hollow in the air Like the walls keep reaching But you’re no longer there And the house holds its breath Like it’s waiting for a spark But the echo of your laughter Is the loneliest part

The Greeks once said the loudest sound Is the silence left behind When the bravest voice you knew No longer fills the time Maybe heaven hears it too Every joke, every spark Maybe angels laugh with you Somewhere past the dark

Where your laugh used to live There’s a fire in my chest Every story you ever told Still refuses rest And if the road keeps turning Past the pain and past the years I’ll keep chasing that old laughter Through the silence and the tears

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