[Tempo: 120 BPM
Key: G minor
Production direction:
Lo-fi ambient house textures
Synthwave pads with vinyl hiss
Phonk-inspired pitch bends and dusty snares
Minimal funk groove on 808 bass
Medieval harp flickers layered with electro-organ chords
UK garage swing hi-hats with microhouse rhythm
Jazz-tone synth piano + vocoder-smeared backing vocals
Vocal samples drift in and out like half-formed thoughts]
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[Verse 1]
I take the world in sips, not swallows
Streetlight flickers where I borrow
Half a feeling, half a name
Caffeine truths in a paper frame
I see my hands but not my face
Clock skips like a record misplaced
I stare through glass instead of in
And count the moments I didn’t begin
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[Chorus]
I said if I left, I’d come back for you
(Beneath the beat where the silence grew)
I said if I left, I’d come back for you
(Through static thoughts and midnight glue)
I said if I left, I’d come back for you
(But I dissolved in what felt true)
I said if I left, I’d come back for you
(And maybe I’m halfway through)
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[Verse 2]
I only feel in borrowed tones
Field recordings, dial tones
You smiled once in a taxi mirror
And I loop that look like chandelier
A synthwave ghost of what I meant
I move through days on accident
Drinking fragments of my name
Trying to glitch out of the same
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[Bridge]
Yeah…
I pressed pause on being whole
Let every version take its toll
Walked through night with velvet feet
Never full, but never beat
Your voice is jazz on broken speakers
I catch your name in subway reverb
So if I’m gone, don’t say goodbye
I’m just a whisper passing by
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[Chorus – Repeat]
I said if I left, I’d come back for you
(Where dream and data split in two)
I said if I left, I’d come back for you
(In halftone hope and deja vu)
I said if I left, I’d come back for you
(Still half-alive, still half-true)
I said if I left, I’d come back for you
(And I… still intend to)
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[Outro]
Synths breathe out like memory
Bassline fades like sympathy
And I microdose this feeling still
Hoping you remember
I will
