Ghost Meridian by Hollow Atlas
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I found a photo from two winters back
Your eyes were doing something they don't do
Some brightness that I'd stopped noticing missing
Some version of you pointing back at you
I held it for a long time at the table
Trying to locate when that light went out
You came in, asked me what I was looking at
I said nothing, set it face down, let it go
[Pre-Chorus]
There's a meridian
An invisible line
Where you crossed from present
Into something left behind
I don't know the date
I don't know the hour
But the person in that photo
Doesn't live here anymore
[Chorus]
Ghost meridian
You're here but you've already gone
Ghost meridian
I've been talking to someone who moved on
The coordinates are right, the body's in the room
But I've been holding conversations with a ghost
Since some unmarked afternoon
Ghost meridian
I loved you past the point
You loved me too
Ghost meridian
[Verse 2]
I think about the last time you meant it
Not saying it — you still say it, that's the trick
The last time that the weight of it was present
The last time it was real and not just habit's wick
I can't locate it, can't pin down the evening
It didn't announce itself, it just withdrew
And somewhere in between the weeks and seasons
The you I knew became a ghost I knew
[Pre-Chorus]
There's a meridian
An invisible line
Where you crossed from present
Into something left behind
I don't know the date
I don't know the hour
But the person that I married in my mind
Doesn't live here anymore
[Chorus]
Ghost meridian
You're here but you've already gone
Ghost meridian
I've been talking to someone who moved on
The coordinates are right, the body's in the room
But I've been holding conversations with a ghost
Since some unmarked afternoon
Ghost meridian
I loved you past the point
You loved me too
Ghost meridian
[Bridge]
I'm not angry
That surprises me
I thought when I saw it clearly
I'd have more to say
But it's just
Quiet
The way a room goes quiet
When someone's slipped away
And I'm standing at the ghost meridian
On the wrong side of the line
And the atlas I've been carrying
Was hollow
The whole time
[Final Chorus]
Ghost meridian
You're here but you've already gone
Ghost meridian
I've been talking to someone who moved on
The coordinates are right, the body's in the room
But I've been holding conversations with a ghost
Since some unmarked afternoon
Ghost meridian
I loved you past the point
You loved me too
(silence)
[Outro]
