Empty apartments are filled to the brim

With garbage piles of recollections and violent dreams

And so was mine

With my restless spirit captured on film

Hey, do you feel these dusty walls closing in?

I hear you scream

Today I realized a part of me was nowhere to be found

It's rudimentary

The dumping ground for all your moth-ridden memories

Has claimed my heart inside its treasury

Oh, please erase this afterimage

I'd trade this living core for all my past mistakes

I'll stay

Until this race ends with a photo finish

I'll be the silent phantom of those older days

And then I'll smile and fade away

Sadness was left on the cutting room floor

At least that was my first impression seeing you at the door

But soon your grin filled with pain

It became such a bore

The weight of agony became such a chore

I abhorred

Seeing your haunting afterimage

I wish you left your anvil chorus out of frame

Someday

You'll disappear after the photo finish

'Til then I'll see your phantoms color silver gray

Before you smile and fade away

Oh, please erase this afterimage

I'd trade this living core for all my past mistakes

I'll stay

Until this race ends with a photo finish

I'll be the silent phantom of those older days

And then I'll smile and fade away

Just say my visage

Will never leave your mind's eye colorful display

I pray

That you will grant me this one privilege

But even if you let it fade and fray

I'll always love you anyway