[Verse 1]
Your phone screen holds the only light tonight
Lipstick lingering like a half-spoken vow
Black straps tracing shadows on your skin
Duvet tangled like the paths we wander down
Orange lamplight spills across the floorboards
You turn the frame, let the warmth find your face
The room breathes slower when you're this near
Like an old six-string still ringing in the space
[Pre-Chorus]
I don't know the words without the tremble
But every shadow feels like home when you assemble
[Chorus]
Jessica, you're the fire in these quiet hours
Cheeks flushed red like autumn leaves in rain
I wanna be the hum beneath your earbuds
The note that hangs when the record starts to wane
Jessica, don't slip into the daylight yet
Keep that soft glow burning, keep me in your debt
[Verse 2]
Your nails on the glass spell out old secrets
Eyeliner trails like stars across the plain
We act like this is nothing but a passing glance
But I'm tracing every line you leave again
Your laugh breaks open like a river bend
Hoodie sleeves you claim with no goodbye
I replay the moments where you simply are
No filter, no road, just you and I
[Chorus]
Jessica, you're the fire in these quiet hours
Cheeks flushed red like autumn leaves in rain
I wanna be the hum beneath your earbuds
The note that hangs when the record starts to wane
Jessica, don't slip into the daylight yet
Keep that soft glow burning, keep me in your debt
[Bridge]
We could chase the horizon till the tank runs dry
Stop at some all-night place with flickering signs
I'd hand you a disc scratched with Sharpie lines
"Everything Since July" in crooked, hopeful signs
No grand promises, no neon blaze
Just two hearts and a dashboard haze
Whispering stay, stay, stay
[Acoustic Guitar Solo – Folk Fingerstyle]
(Slow and meandering, ~75 BPM. Start with sparse thumb-and-finger rolls on low strings echoing the chorus melody, climb to higher frets with gentle slides and hammer-ons like wind through pines. Weave in open-string drones for that folk transcendental feel—think Iron & Wine's "Naked As We Came" intimacy. Include a few pinched harmonics for sparkle, then descend slowly back to the root chord, letting notes ring like fading embers. ~25 seconds of pure breathing room.)
[Final Chorus – hushed, almost spoken at first, then gentle swell]
Jessica, you're still the fire in these quiet hours
Even when the screen fades dark and the signal's gone
I wanna be the echo in your lonesome heart
The one old line you carry on and on
Jessica…
Don't let the glow go out
(Fade with repeating solo motif—slow fingerpicked arpeggios trailing into silence, one last open chord ringing like a porch light left on.)
