The Truth Between Tremors

[Verse 1]
You pour red wine
Into a chipped white cup
Say
"Baby
I been honest"
While your eyes stay shut
That story 'bout your late shift
Keeps changing every night
Like a record warped and wobbling
Never spinning quite right
[Chorus]
I hear the truth between tremors
In every word you choose
You say you’re clean
You say you’re clever
But your tongue keeps changing shoes
You call it love
You call it shelter
I call it hiding in a bruise
We’re dancing slow on broken promises
Where lies and truth get fused
[Verse 2]
Your phone face down
Buzzing on the chair
You say it’s just your brother
But his name ain’t ever there
Your laugh comes half a second late
Like it’s stuck behind a door
And the silence that you hand me
Hurts louder than before
[Chorus]
I hear the truth between tremors
In every word you choose
You say you’re clean
You say you’re clever
But your tongue keeps changing shoes
You call it love
You call it shelter
I call it hiding in a bruise
We’re dancing faster
Tripping
Spinning
Where lies and truth get fused
[Bridge]
Did you ever mean it?
Did I ever want to know? (oh)
Are we saints pretending sinners
Or just bad actors in a show?
Your "always" sounds like "almost"
Your "never" sounds rehearsed
And "baby
I would never hurt you"
Might just be the very worst
[Chorus]
I hear the truth between tremors
In every word you choose
You say you’re clean
You say you’re clever
But your tongue keeps changing shoes
You call it love
You call it shelter
I call it drowning in the proof
We’re spinning wild
Too quick to catch it
As lies and truth trade roofs

Live smoky-room blues ballad with male vocals; bare piano and haunted violin set an eerie tempo that starts dragging and gradually quickens; cello creeps in with dissonant swells; subtle brush kit joins halfway, heartbeat kick rising as the lies unravel; chorus blooms with gravelly harmonies and sustained strings, ending on a tense unresolved chord, slow, blues, cello, violin