[Intro – *WORD PAINTING* pure raspy vibrato curves, with echo]
Mmm… this chaaaair… (…chaaair…)
Hoooolds… your weiiiight… (…weiiiight… staaaay…)
(long echo: staaaay… drift… drift…)
[Verse 1 – echoing, slow bend]
Cracked Naugahyde tight on your tired frame (tight… tight…)
Plaid arms worn silver where your elbows claimed (claaaaiiim…)
Cigarette scars like stars dying in the seat (dying… glowing…)
Ash ghosts mixing with last week’s meat (ghosts… drift…)
Footrest sagging, springs crying low (low… loooow…)
Same spot every night, nowhere else to go (nowhere… go…)
Old Spice, oil, Sunday sweat still clung (cling… cling…)
Every dent says more than you ever sung (sung… uuuuunng…)
[Chorus – Melisma stretched, brutal, echoing pain]
[Almost Yelling / Deep Passion]
So haaaard… leeeeave this chaaair (haaaard… haaaard…)
Ghoooost… crusssshing heeeere (heeeere… heeeere…)
Recliner… hoooolds the paaaain (paaaain… aaaiiinn…)
**Still warm… (warm…)
Still yours… (yooours…)
Still breathin’ where you were… (wheeeere… you… were…)
[Repetitive Tear-Jerker Verse – brutal echo]
*[Vocal Embellishments]*
I sit here… every night… every night… (every… night…)
Feel you leave… feel you leave… again (leave… leave…)
Same spot… same spot… where you slipped away (slipped… away…)
I sit here… every night… every night… (night… night…)
Whisper your name… whisper your name… in the dark (dark… dark…)
You’re gone… you’re gone… but you’re right here (here… here…)
I sit here… every night… every night… (night… night…)
**Still warm… (warm…)
Still yours… (yooours…)
Still breathin’ where you were… (wheeeere… you… were…)
[Chorus – Melisma repeat, echo / raspy ad-libs]
[Almost Yelling / Deep Passion]
So haaaard… leeeeave this chaaair (haaaard… haaaard…)
Ghoooost… crusssshing heeeere (heeeere… crushhh…)
Recliner… hoooolds the paaaain (paaaain… aaaiiiinnn…)
**Still warm… (warm… warm…)
Still yours… (yooours…)
Still breathin’ where you were… (breaaathin… where… you… were…)
**[GRITTY AND TEAR JERKING GUITAR SOLO]**
***[Electric guitar distorted with muddy reverb]***
[Final Chorus – Extra Melisma, stretched, brutal, echoing]
[Almost Yelling / Deep Passion]
So haaaard… leeeeave this chaaair! (haaaard… haaaard…)
Ghoooost… crusssshing heeeere! (heeeere… crushhh…)
Recliner… hoooolds the paaaain! (paaaain… aaaiiinnn…)
**Still warm… (warm… warm…)
Still yours… (yooours…)
Still breathin’ where you were… (wheeeere… you… were…)
[Lead up]
[Outro – *WORD PAINTING*voice splintering, long reverb, one creak, fading]
Leeean… siiiink… deeeep… (siiiink… drift…)
Staaaay… (staaaay… breaaath… echo…)
(final quivering wail… one long creak… silence…)
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