AFTERGLOW DAMAGE

[Intro – airy pads, garage shuffle rising]
You ever stare at your phone at 3 a.m.,
waiting for a name that won’t light up again?
Yeah…
That’s where this begins.

[Verse 1 – smooth male R&B]
I still feel you in the afterglow,
like the heat of a touch that won’t let go.
You left fingerprints on my heartbeat,
cold nights dancing in my bedsheets.
You moved on like it didn’t mean much,
but my room still smells like your goodbye.
Every memory hits like a bass drop,
and I still hear you between the hi-hats.

[Pre-Chorus – rising garage energy]
I tell my friends I’m good,
but my voice always shakes.
They say I’ll heal with time,
but they don’t know how long that takes.

[Chorus – big, catchy, youth vibe]
Afterglow damage,
you left me in the static.
Heart still glitchin’,
love still addictin’.
I’m stuck in the echo
of what we could’ve been—
broken in the cool light,
haunted by your skin.
Afterglow damage,
baby, you were tragic—
but I’d burn again
just to feel that magic.

[Verse 2 – hip-hop / melodic flow]
I replay us like a loop I can’t break,
fast cuts, bad takes,
love scenes that were all fake.
You were a fire I ran straight into,
still tasting the smoke when I think about you.
Got scars where your hands used to be,
gold chain swinging on my ghost memories.
I’m healing slow like vinyl crackle—
but your kiss still lives in the unravel.

[Bridge – trance pads rising]
Tell me why your shadow
fits my shape so perfect.
Tell me why the silence
still feels like you rehearsed it.
I keep trying to outrun the night,
but your name keeps showing up in the streetlights.

[Chorus – final, harder drop]
Afterglow damage,
you left me in the static.
Heart still glitchin’,
love still addictin’.
Still stuck in the echo,
still stuck in the spin—
if heartbreak’s a cycle,
I’m trapped in the wind.
Afterglow damage,
beautiful and savage—
I’d fall again
just to feel that magic.

[Outro – soft R&B vocal]
Yeah…
You were the light.
Now I’m living in the burn.

Male vocal, R&B UK garage fusion with trance pads, emotional catchy hook, modern youth vibe, atmospheric drop