Best Friends, Dead Ends

[Verse 1]
We shared scars
Same clothes
Same cars
Laughing in the parking lot
Like the world was ours
You knew my secrets
You wore my band tees
Now you scroll past my face
Like I’m some disease
[Pre-Chorus]
How’d we go from blood to blank?
From “ride or die” to draw a blank?
[Chorus]
Best friends
Dead ends
You’re a ghost in my hometown
Every memory
Feels like teeth in my mouth
You were my safe place
Now you’re a closed door
I’m screaming names
At strangers I don’t know anymore (hey!)
[Verse 2]
You said “always”
I said it back
Guess forever had
Fine print in black
New crew
New mask
You just shed our past
You left my trust
Like glass on the grass
[Pre-Chorus]
You turned inside jokes to ash
I watch our photos crash
[Chorus]
Best friends
Dead ends
You’re a ghost in my hometown
Every memory
Feels like teeth in my mouth
You were my safe place
Now you’re a closed door
I’m screaming names
At strangers I don’t know anymore
[Bridge]
Did you erase me
Or did I erase you?
Tell me which betrayal
Cut the deepest through
I hate that I miss you
I hate that it’s true (so true)
You killed what we were
But it’s killing me too
[Chorus]
Best friends
Dead ends
You’re a ghost in my hometown
Every memory
Feels like teeth in my mouth
You were my safe place
Now you’re a closed door
I’m screaming names
At strangers I don’t know anymore (anymore)
Anymore

Metalcore with dropped-tuned guitars chugging under dissonant leads; screamed male vocals in the verses, gang-shout hooks in the chorus. Double-kick bursts and half-time breakdowns shape the energy, with brief clean vocal lines cutting through walls of distortion for emotional contrast., metalcore