Play me Once - Side B

[Intro SFX: tape click, soft hiss, slow synth swell] [deep voice, whispered] "Play me once... if you still care...." --- [Verse 1] Midnight drips through the stereo, Your breath still trapped in the audio. In the hiss, I hear you call— Fading slow, but not at all. Flickering like broken screens, You’re the echo in my machines. I ran from words I couldn’t carry, left my truth in a love-song monologue. Cracked leather seats and empty stations, I rewind your name through every track. All these Polaroids in my system, but I can't take the silence back. --- [Chorus] So I left my heart on record, Side B, where secrets hide. No synth can mask this tremble, when the beat breaks inside. Say my name in stereo— like a curse I can't outrun. You were the melody, I was the hit-and-run. --- [SFX: distorted radio fuzz, pitch-warped synth echo] --- [Verse 2] Still got your gum on the dashboard, your laugh in the static sky. I pretended I didn’t feel it— you always knew that was a lie. Moonlight through broken shutters, a mixtape we never finished. Now all I do is haunt the chords of something beautiful... diminished. --- [Chorus] So I left my heart on record, Side B, for ghosts to play. Our love’s a haunted rhythm, that fades but won't decay. Name me in low fidelity— just one last runaround. You were the melody, I was the lost-and-found. --- [Bridge] (vocals low, like confession) Fast forward through my pride, press pause where we went wrong. I carved your name in silence— then looped it into song... --- [Final Chorus – slower, layered vocals, reverb-heavy] I left my heart on record, just past the hiss and sigh. In every whispered lyric, I’m still telling you goodbye. Name me when the night breaks, when the signal's coming through— you were the melody... and I still play for you. --- [Outro SFX: cassette winding down, then silence]