[Style: Indie Acoustic × Country Soul]
[Tempo: ~76 BPM]
[Key: D Major → Bm feel in verses]
[Mood: Reflective, nostalgic, emotional]
[Production]
[* Fingerpicked acoustic intro]
[* Steel guitar answering lines constantly]
[* Ambient indie pad underneath]
[* Soft live drums enter after first chorus]
[* Final chorus opens wide emotionally]
[Intro (steel solo)]
[(steel cries softly… long bend… acoustic enters)]
Yeah…
Guess some things never leave you
[Verse 1]
There’s a steel guitar crying in the corner of this room
Sounds like every mistake I ever made with you
Every note cuts slow, every bend feels true…
Like memory does
I spent years trying to outrun my mind
Late night drives and county line signs
Looking for peace I could never quite find…
Inside myself
[Pre-Chorus]
Funny how pain turns into songs
And songs somehow keep you holding on
[Chorus]
Steel guitars and heartbreak… (heartbreeeak)
That’s what got me through these days
Every scar turned into sound
Every tear became a phrase
And every lonely night I thought would never end
Turned into another song I’d sing again
Guess healing ain’t as clean as people think…
It’s steel guitars and heartbreak
[Verse 2]
Fear used to sit shotgun in my car
Telling me I’d never be going far
And some nights I damn near believed it…
Almost did
But I found pieces of myself in these strings
In old melodies and broken dreams
Turns out hurting don’t mean you can’t heal…
It just takes time
[Pre-Chorus]
And maybe all this pain I carry now
Was only meant to lead me here somehow
[Chorus]
Steel guitars and heartbreak… (heartbreeeak)
That’s what got me through these days
Every scar turned into sound
Every tear became a phrase
And every lonely night I thought would never end
Turned into another song I’d sing again
Guess healing ain’t as clean as people think…
It’s steel guitars and heartbreak
[Bridge (stripped, emotional)]
[(drums drop, steel + vocal)]
Some people numb it
Some people run from it
Me…
I learned how to write through it
[(steel cries softly)]
[Final Chorus (biggest, emotional release)]
Steel guitars and heartbreak… (hold it)
That’s what built who I became
Every road that almost broke me
Still somehow led me this way
And every fear I thought would bury me alive
Turned into proof somehow I survived
Guess healing ain’t about escaping pain…
It’s learning how to sing through steel guitars and heartbreak
[Outro (steel fade)]
[(steel bends warmly now, less sad than before)]
ELIROBB
