Flicker

**Verse 1**
The TV’s on but there’s no sound
Blue light washing over the ground
I sit where you used to lean
Like the space might still mean something

Your glass is still beside the sink
I haven’t moved it — I can’t think
If I disturb what’s left of you
The silence might become the truth

**Pre-Chorus**
Every small thing stays
Like it’s holding you in place
But I know better than to believe
Memory equals heartbeat

**Chorus**
You were a flicker in my hands
Warm for a moment, then gone again
I keep replaying how it felt
Like I could keep you if I held on tight

But love slips through
It always does
And I’m left here
With what it was

**Verse 2**
I hear your laugh inside my head
It sounds different now — more distant
Like a recording losing grain
Breaking up in the quiet

I tried to hate you for a while
Thought anger might replace the smile
But even that just fades to grey
And leaves me here the same

**Pre-Chorus**
There’s no villain in this
No grand goodbye
Just two people
And time

**Chorus**
You were a flicker in my hands
I swore I felt forever then
But forever’s just a word we say
When we’re scared of what could end

Now I walk through
Rooms we knew
And everything
Still points to you

**Bridge (hushed, layered harmonies)**
If I see you somewhere new
Will it hurt the way it used to?
Or have I already lost you
More than once?

**Break (low, restrained swell)**
I don’t need closure
I don’t need blame
Just something solid
I can name

**Final Chorus (soft, almost breaking)**
You were a flicker in my hands
And I keep searching for the flame
But ashes don’t remember fire
And I don’t look the same

If love was real
It still can be
Just not for you
And not for me

**Outro**
The screen goes black
The room stays blue
And I sit here
Missing you

Ethereal Shoegaze, dream pop, alt post metal/post rock, ambient, soft clean vocals, low baritone/high mid range cleans