Someone You Know (Knew)

***[faint CB radio static crackles, then a lone, warbling synth fades in like headlights cutting fog at dawn]***

[Intro]
*[low, gravel voice, almost whispered over the hum]*  
This one’s for the rearview mirror…  
where the people we loved turned into strangers  
before the engine even cooled.

[Verse]
Pink light on cracked vinyl seats,  
your laugh still echoes in the tape hiss.  
Used to taste like cherry smoke and forever—  
now just ghosts riding shotgun.

[Chorus]
Goddamn it hurts  
when someone you know  
turns into someone you *knew*.  
Like chrome rusting under sodium glow,  
like love left melting on the dash.  
You’re gone  
but the ache still rides  
shotgun.

[Verse] 
I keep your number lit up at 3 a.m.,  
thumb shaking over “Don’t.”  
One ring and I’d hear Shalimar and lies—  
or worse,  
nothing at all.

[Final Chorus- voice cracking, reverb swallowing the room]  
It’s murder, baby—  
quiet, slow murder—  
watching “us” fade to static,  
watching you become  
a stranger  
I still bleed for.

[Outro] 
*[synth and steel guitar drift apart, slowing, fading]*  
*[soft, broken murmur over dying 808 pulse]*  
Keep drivin’, cowboy…  
even when the only passenger left  
is the hole you carved out.  

*[final slide into black… neon buzz lingers one last second… then gone]*

Vaporwave, Outlaw Country, Lo-Fi Nostalgia, Melancholic Twang, Neon-Noir Heartbreak, Retro-Futurist Loneliness, Cassette