(Style: Indie rock with shimmering reverb-soaked guitars, driving basslines, and a steady mid-tempo pulse; verse rides tight drum grooves and fingerpicked guitar, pre-chorus opens with rising toms and vocal lift, chorus blooms with wide strummed guitars and stacked harmonies. Male vocals with intimate close-mic verses, doubled choruses, and airy ad-libs. Reverse cymbal swells, tape-delay throws, and a final lift of ringing guitar feedback. Dreamy, cinematic, bright and expansive., male vocals, indie rock, rock)
[Verse 1]
Saw you at the gas station
Hair pulled up again
You were laughing at somebody
I pretended not to stare
Then your name at the grocery store
Written on a cup
Feels like every small-town road
Keeps leading back to us
[Pre-Chorus]
Now the road keeps pulling
And I keep turning back
Every passing highway sign
Hits me like a crash
[Chorus]
Could’ve been me
Could’ve been me
Right there beside you
Could’ve been me
Could’ve been me
Could’ve been me
I let it fall right through my hands
Now it follows me
[Verse 2]
Ran into you at the drugstore
Middle of July
You said, “hey, it’s been forever”
Wouldn’t meet my eyes
I drove home with every old song
Turning in my chest
Funny how seeing you once
Can undo all my rest
[Pre-Chorus]
Now the road keeps pulling
And I keep turning back
Every passing highway sign
Hits me like a crash
[Chorus]
Could’ve been me
Could’ve been me
Right there beside you
Could’ve been me
Could’ve been me
Could’ve been me
I let it fall right through my hands
Now it follows me
[Bridge]
If I came back different
Would you know my face?
Or did I fade out slowly
From your safest place?
I held onto my reasons
You held onto the ache
Some things don’t fall apart at once
They bend until they break
[Final Chorus]
Could’ve been me
Could’ve been me
Right there beside you
Could’ve been me
Could’ve been me
Could’ve been me
I let it fall right through my hands
Now it follows me
Still it follows me
BLACKLARK
