You appear in half-frames
like my memory buffering your face
(guitar solo — thin, shimmering, detuned, cutting in and out)
I reach
and my hand learns nothing
you’re there—
then you’re rendered wrong
a smile caught mid-update
a voice that forgets its ending
(synth stab collapse → silence pulse)
you don’t walk into rooms
you initialize them
you don’t hold me
you overwrite the space around me
(guitar solo — aggressive, fragmented riffs, abrupt stops)
I keep confusing absence for distance
like you’re just… off-camera
but you flicker
you always flicker
CHORUS (broken, repeated like corrupted audio):
stay—
don’t stay—
stay—
don’t stay—
I hold you like a signal
I lose you like a signal
you are almost here
you are almost mine
you are almost—
(synth breakdown — glass FM tones, pitch bends, tape warble, chopped vocal fragments: “almost / almost / almost”)
you return in low resolution
soft edges, wrong timing
your love doesn’t land
it lags
(guitar solo — soaring but unstable, notes slipping off pitch like data loss)
I learn your shape in glitches
I memorize the gaps between you
you don’t leave
you decompile
CHORUS (bigger, fractured, layered vocals):
stay—stay—stay—
don’t—don’t—don’t—
I feel you in the static
I lose you in the static
you are almost here
you are almost mine
you are almost—
(synth breakdown — full collapse into ambient tape loops, reversed chords, distant breathing chopped into rhythm)
you blink in
you blink out
I don’t know which is real anymore
maybe you never stayed long enough
to become real at all