I hear you

on the tape

not alive

not gone

There’s a voice in the static

breathing through the line

like a ghost in the circuit

that once was mine

I rewind your silence

but it never breaks

just a loop of your shadow

burned in the tape

Say my name

through the hiss and decay

if you’re still there

don’t drift away

Don’t fade out

don’t dissolve in the grey

I can feel you

but you’re slipping away

In the noise

in the coil of the night

you’re the signal

I can’t rewrite

Don’t fade out

don’t collapse into air

I am calling

are you still there

In the dark

in the fracture of sound

you’re the echo

that won’t come down

Every breath is a waveform

breaking apart

every word is distortion

cut through the heart

I can taste your absence

like rust on my tongue

you were more than a moment

now you’re undone

Hold the line

even fractured and torn

if you vanish

what was I for

Don’t fade out

don’t dissolve in the grey

I can feel you

but you’re slipping away

In the noise

in the coil of the night

you’re the signal

I can’t rewrite

Stay stay stay

If I scream through the circuits

will you return

or am I just chasing

what will not burn

Stay in the signal

stay in the wire

stay in the fracture

stay in the fire

Stay in the signal

stay in the wire

stay in the fracture

stay

DON’T FADE OUT

I WON’T LET YOU GO

IF YOU’RE ONLY A MEMORY

I WILL NEVER KNOW

DON’T FADE OUT

STAY INSIDE MY SOUND

EVEN IF YOU’RE BROKEN

I WILL HOLD YOU DOWN

glitch me

break me

loop me

erase me

glitch me

take me

mute me

replace me

I hear you

in the end

not alive

not gone

just tape

and echo