Static on My Throat

[Verse 1]
Chipped black nail paint
On this same three-chord shape
You said you'd stay
Then you drove out of state
Coffee's gone cold
But my face still burns
From the last soft word
You never returned
[Chorus]
So I bleed on these strings
Till my fingers shake
Every line I sing
Is your quiet mistake
If you hear this someday
On some late-night road
Know I carved your name
With static on my throat (oh-oh)
[Verse 2]
Your hoodie still hangs
Like a ghost on my door
I keep stepping around it
Like I did you before
Friends say "let it go"
Like it's that easy
Like this rust in my chest
Ever lets me breathe
[Chorus]
So I bleed on these strings
Till my fingers shake
Every line I sing
Is your quiet mistake
If you hear this someday
On some late-night road
Know I carved your name
With static on my throat (yeah)
[Bridge]
Would you stop the car
If this voice came on
Or kill the sound
Like you killed us off
I don't want you back
I just want you to know
You taught me how to crack
And call it growth
[Chorus]
Now I bleed on these strings
Till my fingers shake
Every line I sing
Still spells your shape
If you hear this someday
On some late-night road
Just turn it up loud
Let it cut your bones
Yeah I carved your name
With static on my throat (my throat)

Gritty alternative emo ballad with female vocals, close-mic’d rasp and intimate room verb. Fingerpicked electric guitar in the verses, adding a second, overdriven guitar with wide panning in the choruses. Subtle bass glues the low end; brushed snare enters on the second chorus for lift. Final chorus strips to solo vocal and guitar for a raw, fragile finish., emo