Ash in the Static (Turning Point)

(gritty, jagged riffs, glitchy tape effects, obsessive vocals)

(Verse 1)

The memories crack like broken glass,

Your face dissolves as the days pass.

I reach for you but you’re not there,

Just fragments hanging in the air.

I stitch together the parts I know,

Build a version that won’t let go.

One where you smile, one where you stay,

One where nothing ever walked away.

(Verse 2)

I hear you calling through the feedback hum,

Or maybe I’m the only one.

Your voice warps, bends, rewinds,

Echoes of a love I redesigned.

(Pre-Chorus)

Reality fractures in my mind,

I choose the version I can bind.

(Chorus)

We burn like ash in the static,

Memories turn automatic.

Every version bends when I move,

Truth dissolves into the groove.

Yeah, I live in the glitch of you.

(Verse 3 — more desperate)

I hold your shape in trembling hands,

Trace your outline in shifting sands.

If it wasn’t real, I make it so,

I’ll keep the shadow I need to know.

(Chorus 2 — louder, feedback-laden)

We burn like ash in the static,

Every memory becomes emphatic.

If the real slips, I don’t care,

I’ll build you from smoke and air.

Yeah, I live in the glitch of you.

(Bridge — whispered over distorted guitar)

Stay…

Stay in my mind…

Even if it’s wrong…

Even if it’s all I find…

(Outro — tape stutter, fading hum)

Ash in the static…

Ash in the static…