Title: The Night She Changed the Noise [Intro] One, two, three, four! [Verse 1] I was twenty-something wasted on a Tuesday night Kicking bottle caps under a busted streetlight Had a head full of thunder and a heart full of dents Spending every last dollar on bad common sense The jukebox coughed up an old sad song And the whole room smelled like beer and gasoline I was halfway gone from a half-dead town Wearing out the floor where my luck had been Then the door blew open and the night walked in Black boots, blue eyes, and a lightning grin She didn’t ask my name, she just stole my smoke And laughed like she already knew the joke [Pre-Chorus] She said, quit looking dead You ain’t buried yet Then she dragged me outside Where the pavement was wet [Chorus] She was loud like a siren Bright like a fuse The kind of girl who makes a lost boy choose Between staying broken Or burning free She hit my chest like a melody I was a wreck with a radio soul She turned me up when the world turned cold I swear I heard Heaven in a feedback scream The night she changed the noise in me [Verse 2] She had a name like trouble and a laugh like sin A silver-chain heart and a hurricane spin She danced in the headlights of a borrowed car Like the whole damn sky was a backyard bar I told her I was no good at staying She said, good, I’m no good at waiting Then she kissed me hard by the county line Like she was trying to wake up the dead inside We took the long way nowhere fast Burning red lights, outrunning the past By sunrise I knew, God help me, I was gone She was every wild thing I’d been missing too long [Pre-Chorus] She said, don’t promise forever Just mean right now And somehow that sounded Like a wedding vow [Chorus] She was loud like a siren Bright like a fuse The kind of girl who makes a lost boy choose Between staying broken Or burning free She hit my chest like a melody I was a wreck with a radio soul She turned me up when the world turned cold I swear I heard Heaven in a feedback scream The night she changed the noise in me [Bridge] She wasn’t soft She wasn’t safe She was a matchbook smile And a getaway face She wasn’t sweet She wasn’t clean She was a wild little prayer In ripped-up jeans I was all bad timing She was all green lights Two wrong turns Making one good night And I don’t know love But I know what I felt When she made my old scars Sound like church bells [Breakdown] Hey! She lit the dark up Hey! She shook the ground Hey! I was fading quiet Till she turned me loud [Final Chorus] She was loud like a siren Bright like a fuse The kind of girl who makes a lost boy choose Between staying broken Or burning free She hit my chest like a melody I was a wreck with a radio soul She turned me up when the world turned cold I swear I heard Heaven in a feedback scream The night she changed the noise in me [Outro] Yeah, she changed the noise Yeah, she changed the noise I was fading quiet Till she turned me loud
