Hurt In The Hiding

[Verse 1]
You’re right here
Head on my shoulder
But it feels like
You’re watching from the corner of the room
Soft laugh
Sharp like a splinter
Say you’re fine
But your eyes don’t land
They bloom
[Chorus]
Hurts in the hiding
Bleeding in the bright of day
I miss you while you’re with me
You’re a ghost that learned my name
You’re changing into something wrong
But I’m the one who stays
Loving every aching razor
Loving pain you never say
[Verse 2]
You talk big
All teeth and thunder
But your hands shake
Folded tight behind your back
Cold kiss
Tastes like summer
Like a photograph
Fading at the edges
Turning black
[Chorus]
Hurts in the hiding
Bleeding in the bright of day
I miss you while you’re with me
You’re a ghost that learned my name
You’re changing into something wrong
But I’m the one who stays
Loving every aching razor
Loving pain you never say
[Bridge]
[Fingerpicked guitar creeps in
Vocal almost a whisper]
Mountain in your jawline
Hollow in your stare
I can hear the old you calling
From somewhere under there
If I burn my hands
Trying to pull you back
Will you thank me in the ashes
Or just paint the whole sky black (oh)
[Chorus]
Hurts in the hiding
Bleeding in the bright of day
I miss you while you’re with me
You’re a ghost that learned my name
You’re changing into something wrong
And I still take the blame
Loving you is loving hurt
Loving hurt that wears your face

rock, Alt-metal and shoegaze hybrid with male vocals: slow, detuned guitars swell under a hazy verse; chorus explodes with stacked, distorted power chords and octave lead. Dream-pop reverb on the voice, but the delivery is raw and pushed. Appalachian-tinged fingerpicking panned wide in the bridge with a mournful fiddle line; drums move from roomy and distant to tight, punishing hits in the final chorus., art rock, appalachian folk, alternative metal, shoegaze, dream pop