Static

night falls heavy like a curtain made of static

city breathes neon, everything bends, erratic

i’m on the edge of myself, don’t know where i’m at

boots on the pavement but the ground don’t clap back

vision splitting into pieces like glass in slow rain

heard my name in the wind but it wasn’t my name

lights turn liquid, crawling up the walls of my brain

every thought i try to hold just dissolves in the flame

met her in the haze like she walked out the smoke

smiling like she knew all the things i won’t spoke

she said “you look lost but you look kinda alive”

took my hand, said “follow me, don’t ask why”

now the world is a loop, same street, different sky

time folding over like it’s learning to die

i’m laughing at nothing, she’s laughing too hard

we don’t know what’s real but it’s hitting that part

bass in the chest like a heartbeat glitch

everything flickers like reality switched

faces in mirrors don’t match what I feel

but it feels too good so I’m not checking what’s real

we drift through the night in a slow motion film

every sound underwater, every color too real

she disappears then she’s right back again

like the world keeps re-writing where she has been

i can’t tell if I’m higher or just finally free

or if freedom just looks like losing the “me”

streetlights melt into gold on her skin

she whispers “don’t fight it, just let it begin”

and i do

and i fall through the floors of a dream inside dream

hear my thoughts echo back but they’re not what they mean

there’s a crowd in my head but they don’t have a face

just emotions in motion in a spinning space

i see my past in the corners, it’s watching me laugh

like it knows i won’t make it back down this path

but i don’t even care, i’m too deep in the sound

every heartbeat a wave pulling further down

she says “we’re just fragments pretending we’re whole”

touches my chest like she’s reading my soul

and the night keeps unfolding, no end, no start

just a loop of light breaking me apart

then silence hits heavy, like a door closing slow

she’s gone but she isn’t, I still kinda know

that nothing was real but it still left a mark

like a song you remember in total dark

i’m back on the sidewalk, shaking in the cold

city still moving like nothing was told

but i swear for a second I wasn’t alone

in a world made of noise that felt like my home