Cherry Static

Verse 1

Summer stains on your t-shirt

Cheap wine, bleeding through

You talk like you’re already gone

I pretend I don’t hear you

Cigarette glow in the mirror

Your eyes look bored again

You love me best in fragments

Never all the way in

Pre-Chorus

I keep my feelings folded

Like letters you won’t read

I say I’m fine, you nod along

Like that’s enough for me

Chorus

You taste like cherry static

Sweet and hard to trust

You say you hate the quiet

But you’re scared of us

I’d fall apart in silence

Just to feel your touch

You love me when it’s tragic

Never when it’s love

Verse 2

Late-night floors, bare feet

Your record skips, so do I

You say we’re better broken

Like it sounds poetic enough to try

You don’t mean to hurt me

You just don’t stay

You leave before the feeling

Gets too real to fake

Pre-Chorus

I keep my heart romantic

You keep yours closed and clean

You like me sad and glowing

Like I’m just a scene

Chorus

You taste like cherry static

Sweet and hard to trust

You say you hate the quiet

But you’re scared of us

I’d fall apart in silence

Just to feel your touch

You love me when it’s tragic

Never when it’s love

Bridge (Soft, Stripped)

If I leave, would you miss me?

Or just miss the way I cry?

You don’t want me happy

You want me aestheticized

Final Chorus

You taste like cherry static

Fading in the dark

I built a home inside you

You called it “too much heart”

I won’t bleed out in silence

Just to keep you close

I loved you cinematic

But real love—you don’t know

Outro

Cherry static

I let you go