Lie It All, Down

Verse 1

There’s a barroom moon hangin’ crooked tonight

Neon buzzin’ like a headache that won’t die

I been starin’ at the ceiling since you hit the porch light

Left me with the ashes and a half-drunk goodbye

Pre

You said forever wore your mama’s old ring

Now forever’s just a word that don’t mean anything

Chorus

The blue in the sky turned red from the cries that I cried

When you burned it all down, torched the porch and the pride

What’s true… when you turned the lead into my eye

Concerned… after you lie it all down

Lie it all… down

*(distorted slide guitar screams once then melts back into reverb ocean • pitched-down Tammy Wynette sample whispers “stand by your maaaaan” backwards)*

Verse 2

Got a Polaroid of us taped to the dash

Your smile’s still sharp enough to cut through the glass

But the colors bleed funny when the tape starts to drag

Like even the memory knows it ain’t comin’ back

Pre

You said “baby I’m leavin’” like it’s just one more town

Now the skyline’s on fire and the radio’s down

Chorus

The blue in the sky turned red from the cries that I cried

When you burned it all down, gasoline valentine

What’s true… when you turned the lead into my eye

Concerned… after you lie it all down

Lie it all… down

Bridge

*(beat cuts — only lonely Fender Rhodes and a slowed + chopped vocal chop of “I still love you” stretched into eternity)*

Saw your taillights bleed into the blacktop vein

Heard the devil hummin’ your favorite refrain

Now the sunset’s wearin’ your lipstick stain

And I’m still coughin’ up sparks in your name

Final Chorus

*(full drop — crushing nu-metal chug underneath vaporwave mall fountain arpeggios • pedal steel weeping through the mix like a ghost)*

The blue in the sky turned red from the cries that I cried

When you burned every letter, every promise, every night

What’s true… when you turned that lead straight through my eye

Still concerned… even after you lie it all down

Lie it all… lie it all…

lie it all down

*(final chord hangs forever • warped answering machine beep • faint voice, barely audible:)*

“if you’re listenin’… I’m sorry… I just… I had to…”

*(click. tape hiss. silence.)*