“Neon Bones” ( Jayney Allison)

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“Neon Bones”

Verse 1

Tree looks like a skeleton dancing in the firelight

Sky bleeding colors like a glitch in the afterlife

I taste your name in the static of the breeze

Every little silence hums in your frequency

Pre-Chorus

We were electric, we were wild

Now it’s just sparks in denial

Chorus

We got neon bones, glowing in the dark

Lit up for a second, then we fell apart

You were in my bloodstream, running like a code

Now I’m just a signal with nowhere to go

Neon bones, flicker then they fade

Love like ours don’t know how to stay

Still I light a match in the afterglow

Hoping you’ll come back through the undertow

Verse 2

Skyline melting, dripping down the edge of night

Your shadow’s dancing just outside my line of sight

Every color turning into black and blue

Guess that’s what sunsets always do

Bridge

If I call your name into the void

Will it echo, or get destroyed?

Are you somewhere in the same dark air

Or just a pulse that isn’t there?

Break

(Heartbeat kicks in)

Glow… fade… glow… fade…

Final Chorus

We got neon bones, burning through the dusk

Turning every memory into glowing dust

You were like a fever I could never hold

Now I’m just a story getting slowly told

Neon bones, shimmer then they break

Every light we were is a light I fake

Still I stand where the sky explodes

With my quiet, glowing neon bones