### Teal

Verse 1

Left my hoodie on your chair, midnight static in the air

City hum, caffeine drum, cracked screen lighting up your stare

We were orbit, off and on, like a neon, stubborn sign

Every truth we tried to text kept autocorrecting to “we’re fine”

Pre-Chorus

We had playlists as apologies

Cheap polaroids and prophecies

Said we’d grow up peacefully

But neither of us could ever see

Chorus

Steel teal eyes, cutting through the noise I make

Like streetlight knives, slipping past the guards I fake

Every time I try to hide, you color the grayscale night

Steel teal eyes, steel teal eyes

Verse 2

You said “love is not a quiz,” still I studied every sigh

Stargazed on a basement roof, tracing answers in the sky

We were thrift-store royalty, paper crowns and borrowed time

Held our breath on broken steps, hoping stairs would learn to climb

Pre-Chorus

I kept jokes for armor’s sake

You kept faith in origami cranes

We folded hope until it ached

And then flew it anyway

Chorus

Steel teal eyes, cutting through the noise I make

Like streetlight knives, slipping past the guards I fake

Every time I try to hide, you color the grayscale night

Steel teal eyes, steel teal eyes

Post-Chorus

Teal like a tide in a bottle

Teal like a truth with a throttle

Teal like a city exhaling rain

Saying we could start again

Verse 3

I still find your chapstick ghosts on winter jackets in July

Still rehearse the clever lines I never said when you were mine

But I’m learning how to open windows even when it snows

Letting all the air you left behind come back and steal the show

Bridge

We were lost and that’s okay

Maps are drawn by those astray

If the compass starts to heal

Point me where the color feels

Like first light on a sleepless mind

Like forgiveness without a sign

Say it once, then say it twice—

I remember being seen by

Breakdown

Steel teal eyes

Steel teal eyes

Final Chorus

Steel teal eyes, cutting through the noise I make

Like streetlight knives, slipping past the guards I fake

Every time I try to hide, you color in the grayscale night

Steel teal eyes, steel teal eyes

Outro

Keep the coat, keep the sky

Keep the teal that taught me why

If I blur, if I deny

You’re the hue that tells the lie goodbye

Steel teal eyes