Bad timing (southwest desert soul)2

Music Style Prompt:

(Southwestern desert soul blues. Emotional gravel male vocal. Steel guitar, warm electric guitar, upright bass, soft drums, organ pads, and light blues horn section. Slow tempo around 72 BPM. Wide desert atmosphere with melancholic but peaceful tone. Story-driven blues about love lost due to timing. Inspired by Leon Bridges soul blues, Chris Stapleton style vocals, and cinematic western sound.)

Lyrics:

I was ready… you were not

You leaned in close then pulled away when it got too hot

I stood there holding all the weight...

While you disappeared behind that gate

I got quiet… lost in the dark

You were chasing ghosts on a different path

I kept reaching… calling your name

But the more I tried the farther you slipped away

I ain’t angry… (pause) I ain’t mad

Just a lonely man with a love we never had

(Beat)

Two hearts drifting out of rhyme

Sometimes love is just bad timing

You always came back like the tide

Rolling through my door then back outside

So I’d wait there in between

Where hope and silence sit unseen

Then the weight would roll back in

And you'd disappear inside your skin

Like a shadow hiding from the sun

Leaving me wondering what we’d become

I ain’t angry… (pause) I ain’t mad

Just a lonely man with a love we never had

(Beat)

Two hearts drifting out of rhyme

Sometimes love is just bad timing

(Beat)

I take my pain and hammer steel

Turn every scar into something real

You sit with yours just trying to survive

(Beat)

Both of us learning how to stay alive

Neither wrong… neither right

Just two souls fighting different fights

(Beat)

I’ll keep walking down my line

But a part of you stays frozen in time

(Beat)

If someday fate lets our roads align

Maybe we’ll laugh about bad timing

Till then I’ll carry what we knew

Like an old blues song ringing true

I saw the light inside your heart

Wish you could see it like I do

(Beat)

Tonight the horns cry low

(Beat)

Bad timing

(Horne outro)