Half Past Never

[Verse 1]
Glass on my tongue
Lipstick on the rim
Laughing at a ghost
You used to live in my skin
Quarter past hurt
Staring through the stain
You’re a past due promise
Drowning in the rain
[Chorus]
I’m drunk on the time that I wasted
All the love
All the nights that we painted
On a heart that was breaking in stages
Every drop from the sky says your name
Yeah (your name)
I keep dancing with all of my failures
In a storm made of all of our failures
Every minute just deepens the flavor
Of the pain
And the rain
And the blame
[Verse 2]
Missed calls at 3
You always loved that hour
Now it’s just my shadow
Leaning off the tower
Kiss scars on my wrist
From holding on too tight
Your memory’s a fist
Swinging through my mind
[Chorus]
I’m drunk on the time that I wasted
All the love
All the nights that we painted
On a heart that was breaking in stages
Every drop from the sky says your name
Yeah (your name)
I keep dancing with all of my failures
In a storm made of all of our failures
Every minute just deepens the flavor
Of the pain
And the rain
And the blame
[Bridge]
How many clocks gotta shatter
’Fore I stop going back there
Back there (oh)
How many storms ’til it scatters
Every trace of your hands in my hair
[Chorus]
I’m drunk on the time that I wasted
All the love
All the nights that we painted
On a heart that was breaking in stages
Every drop from the sky says your name
Yeah (your name)
I keep dancing with all of my failures
In a storm made of all of our failures
Every minute just deepens the flavor
Of the pain
And the rain
And the blame

Smoky dark R&B with female vocals, pulsing sub-bass and sparse trap drums, woozy reversed keys and filtered pads. Verses stay close and confessional, intimate head-voice and stacked whispers; chorus widens with airy harmonies and a slightly dirtier low-end. Occasional pitched-down ad-libs and distant rain SFX tucked in the mix, slow tempo with roomy reverb to let the pain linger., r&b