[Intro — tape hiss, almost no music] [Female — extremely close, almost whispered] I found your voice inside an old machine Half erased... but somehow still with me [Verse 1] Summer on cassette bleeding through the rain Your laugh bends slowly underneath the grain Streetlights flickered gold across your face Now every little glitch takes me back to that place [Breath] Back... to that place... [Build — voice stays close] Maybe memory is only damaged sound Trying not to disappear when no one's around [RELEASE 1 — intimate, emotional] Ghosts in the signal calling me home Pieces of yesterday inside every tone Ghosts in the signal still coming through Every broken frequency still sounds like you Sounds like you... [Rhythm fractures briefly] [Verse 2 — almost spoken into the mic] Years move forward but some things stay A photograph fades in a different way I don't remember every word you said But I remember how the silence felt instead [Everything cuts] [Whisper] Is anything really gone... if I can still feel it? [Brief intensity burst] [Immediate collapse — breath + tape hiss] [Build] Don't disappear Don't disappear Not yet... [FINAL RELEASE — emotional, still close] Ghosts in the signal calling me home Pieces of yesterday inside every tone Ghosts in the signal still coming through Every broken frequency still leads to you If time keeps moving and I have to too Leave me one small signal I can follow back to you Ghosts in the signal... still coming through [All music cuts] [Voice directly in ear] Please... don't fade yet. [HARD STOP]
