(long phrases, intimate, sung not spoken)
[Intro - airy, close mic]
There’s a voice in the wallpaper
Talking when the room goes dark
Like a radio from nowhere
Trying to remember who we are
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[Verse 1]
You left fingerprints on every little thing
Coffee cups, countertops, loose strings
Now the house keeps making your mistakes
Repeating them back in a different shape
The clock on the stove still flashes twelve
Like it’s waiting for somebody else
Funny how a silence gets so loud
When there’s nobody around
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[Pre-Chorus - stretch the melody]
And I…
Keep hearing echoes where there should be air
And I…
Keep finding pieces of you everywhere
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[Chorus - big hook]
It’s just static on the line
Static on the line
But I keep listening
Like maybe if I wait
Maybe if I stay
You’ll come back in
It’s just static on the line
But it sounds enough like you
To fool me every time
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[Verse 2]
The neighbors laugh through open windows
Summer leaning over fences
Everybody moving forward
Like they never had a sentence
Half-finished hanging in the air
Like a coat nobody came for
Like a song that’s missing one word
And somehow means more
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[Chorus]
It’s just static on the line
Static on the line
But I keep listening
Like maybe if I wait
Maybe if I stay
You’ll come back in
It’s just static on the line
But it sounds enough like you
To fool me every time
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[Rap Verse - laid back, conversational]
Look…
I ain’t saying I was innocent
I got ghosts in my apartment too
Got old texts I should delete
But I read ‘em when the night’s too quiet
Funny how the mind edits film
Cuts the bad scenes from the reel
Makes you miss what wasn’t good
Just because it used to feel real
I see your name in random places
Street signs, receipts, conversations
Not because the universe is talking
Just because memory’s persuasive
Still…
Some nights I almost call
Just to hear the phone ring twice
Then remember we already paid
The cost of trying one more time
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[Final Chorus - bigger, layered]
It’s just static on the line
Static on the line
But I keep listening
Every ghost becomes a song
Every ending lingers on
A little longer than it should
It’s just static on the line
But tonight I think I finally know
It was never really you
Just the sound of letting go
Weber
