[Verse 1]
Late bar
Low glow
Ice melts slow in a short glass halo
Your laugh cuts
Through the blue of the room
Then you go
Ashtray full of half-done plans
Smoke rings climbing like broken prayers
My hands remember
What my pride won’t let me share
[Chorus]
You’re the sugar in my venom
Bitters in my blood
Silk inside the shrapnel
Calm before the flood
Every time you leave
All that I can do
Is drown in these changes
Chasing ghosts of you
[Verse 2]
Street rain on a tin roof mind
Old film flicker on the back wall
Rewind
Your name
Scribbled in the margins of my spine
Clock hands drag like rusted chains
Sax line slithers through my veins
I taste
Every quiet war we never named
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
When the strings rise up
And the night cracks open
I wear your memory
Like borrowed armor
[growled backing vocal]
Every scar a chord
Every breath a wager
I tear the sky in half
Just to feel you closer
[crescendo]
Sparks in the drum rolls
Brass like a warning
Guitars like an engine
Tearing through the mourning
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Ride the last note down
Into ash
Into indigo
If you ever circle back
You’ll find my shadow at your door
Half-light
Half-fury
Still waiting
For the storm to return