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