(Verse 1)
It started with a wrong call, midnight haze
Fireworks crying in the neon rain
Your voice like velvet through a broken line
Said, “Stay a while,” and I said, “I’ve got time”
Champagne silence, strangers in the dark
You lit a cigarette inside my heart
Three months dancing on a wire so thin
I knew it wasn’t safe, but I leaned in
(Pre-Chorus)
Now your number’s just a ghost I dial
Echoes playing on a looped file
I keep you where the truth won’t go
In recordings no one knows
(Chorus)
I still hear you in the static, baby
New Year’s whisper driving me crazy
I’m wearing white but thinking of you
Something borrowed, something blue
I’m walking down a line I didn’t choose
With a man I’ve always knew
Before you ever called my name
Before you set my heart in flames
That my heart stayed on that call
That I never hung up at all
(Verse 2)
You disappeared on a holy day
Like love just slipped and washed away
No goodbye, just quiet in bloom
Left me praying in an empty room
You said you’d call me when the gym closed on the holiday
But instead, you disappeared on that very day
I scroll our texts like sacred art
Every word a fragile part
Of a life I almost had
Of a love that turned so bad
(Pre-Chorus)
Your laugh lives in my hidden files
I play it back and stay awhile
If I close my eyes just right
You’re still mine in the night
(Chorus)
I still hear you in the static, baby
New Year’s whisper driving me crazy
Veil in my hands, but it feels untrue
‘Cause forever still points to you
He’s holding my hand, but I feel you
In everything I do
I’m saying vows with someone I’ve known so long
But my silence screams for you
(Bridge)
Was I just a midnight mistake?
A voice you’d only ever take
When the world was loud and wild?
Did you ever love me for a while?
I recorded you to feel you stay
Now it haunts me every day
“Someday,” you said, “you’ll understand”
But I don’t… I just hold your phantom hand
(Outro)
So here I am in lace and lies
With your echo in my mind
A love that lived for just one season
But left without a reason
They ask if I’ll take his hand
And I try to understand…
Why a random call on New Year’s night
Still feels more right than this whole life…
Selvy
