Her Eyes Before The Hurt

[Verse 1]
You used to laugh
Mouth full of toothpaste foam
Wearing my shirt
Dancing on the kitchen floor
You used to talk
’Bout stupid shows you loved
Scroll in your hand
Head on my chest
Half drunk
[Pre-Chorus]
I see that version of you
Safe in a world I ruined
Wish I could climb back through
Before I broke right through it
[Chorus]
I keep seeing her eyes before the hurt
Clear as morning
Clean T‑shirt
Did this to us
I lit the match first
Now I’m choking on the smoke
On the dirt
I keep seeing her eyes before the hurt
All that trust I didn’t deserve
Can’t forgive me
I don’t deserve her
But I can’t get her out
Out of my world
[Verse 2]
Phone light on
Name that is not yours
Every lie
Folded in my drawer
She just stared
Didn’t even curse
Silence hit
Louder than my worst
[Pre-Chorus]
I wish she’d slammed every door
Broken my glass
Screamed war
Instead she just said my name
Soft
Like it wasn’t the same
[Chorus]
I keep seeing her eyes before the hurt
Clear as morning
Clean T‑shirt
Did this to us
I lit the match first
Now I’m choking on the smoke
On the dirt
I keep seeing her eyes before the hurt
All that trust I didn’t deserve
Can’t forgive me
I don’t deserve her
But I can’t get her out
Out of my world
[Bridge]
If I could trade every night
Every touch
For one more time she looks at me in love
I’d be alone in an empty bed
Just to erase what’s in her head (yeah)
[Chorus]
I keep seeing her eyes before the hurt
Clear as morning
Clean T‑shirt
Did this to us
I lit the match first
Now I’m choking on the smoke
On the dirt
I keep seeing her eyes before the hurt
All that trust I didn’t deserve
Can’t forgive me
I don’t deserve her
But I can’t get her out
Out of my world

Alternative R&B with male vocals, moody Rhodes and woozy pads over a lazy swung groove. Sparse bass in the verses, fingersnap percussion and filtered drums; chorus widens with airy harmonies and a soaked reverb tail. Subtle guitar phrases answering the vocal, bridge strips to voice and keys before the last hook swells back in., alternative r&b