Radio Silent

[Verse 1]
They say the heart knows what it wants
Mine don't say a word these days
Used to talk in little sparks
Now it's static in my chest, just gray
I keep leaning in to hear it
Like it's whispering from the past
But it's quiet as an empty church
When the service ends at last
[Chorus]
It's radio silent
Not a love song, not a siren
Just a cold, blank sky inside my ribs tonight
I’d give anything to feel
Something honest, something real
But it's radio silent
And I'm trying not to cry
[Verse 2]
I trace our names in coffee rings
Then wipe them off before they dry
Actin' tough with all my friends
But I'm breaking on the drive back home each night
I used to shake when you walked in
Now my hands just hang like stone
Guess the saddest kind of heartbreak
Is bein’ lonely in your own soul
[Chorus]
It's radio silent
Not a love song, not a siren
Just a cold, blank sky inside my ribs tonight
I’d give anything to feel
Something honest, something real
But it's radio silent
And I'm trying not to cry (trying not to cry)
[Bridge]
If the heart knows what it wants
Did mine just give up and leave?
‘Cause all I hear is empty
Where you used to echo me
[Chorus]
It's radio silent
Not a love song, not a siren
Just a cold, blank sky inside my ribs tonight
I’d give anything to feel
Something honest, something real
But it's radio silent
And I just wanna cry
Yeah, it's radio silent
So I just sit here and cry

country, Sparse sad-country ballad over brushed drums and warm pedal steel, male vocals. Intimate verse with close-mic acoustic guitar, chorus blooms slightly with layered harmonies and organ pad. Keep the tempo slow and swaying; let the vocal crack and linger on key phrases for maximum ache., sad