DELETE ME SLOW [Intro] Delete all. One gray button. The phone wants to know if you mean it. You haven't told it yet. So I've got till the screen goes dark. [Verse 1] Three years, and on your screen it's a strip the width of your thumbnail. Kitchen dark. Fridge hum. The blue of it under your chin. Frame forty: my coat on your chair. You must have liked the light. The night we missed the exit and kept on to the county line, your boots on the dash, the wipers' slap, you reading the signs. I've run that one so many times the road's gone dry, and I still miss the exit. On purpose, now. I let it go by. [Chorus] Before you delete me, play the ten seconds where neither of us talks. Two breaths, a train, and you laughing at something I never saw. Don't do it in one tap. Do it like weather. Press it and hold. One, two, three, four. Let go. Delete me slow. [Verse 2] There's one where I'm half a face. The rest of me went when you turned. One of your stove at two a.m. No light. No reason. Nothing burned. The worst month's got three. The best week we had has none. Eight hundred files, and I can't reach one. Not one. I'd pinch the glass till it broke into squares, if I still had the glass. Every night my thumb goes looking and all it finds is black. The only me who still has you is in your hand. Give him the night. [Chorus] Before you delete me, play the ten seconds where neither of us talks. Two breaths, a train, and you laughing at something I never saw. Don't do it in one tap. Do it like weather. Press it and hold. One, two, three. Stay on three. Delete me slow. [Bridge] Tuesday, March, the lot behind the laundromat on Vine: I went first. All of you. One tap. I never read the sign. Nine hundred and twelve seconds. The bar went gray, and stopped. I kept the engine on and waited for the floor to drop. It didn't. I got a coffee. I slept nine hours in my clothes. Take longer with me than I took with you. That's all. That's all I know. [Chorus] Before you delete me, play the ten seconds where neither of us talks. Two breaths, a train, and you laughing at something I never saw. Don't do it in one tap. Do it like weather. Yours went in eleven seconds. I was up way past four. Delete me slow. [Outro] The screen goes dark on its own. Loop Before you delete me, play the ten seconds where neither of us talks. Two breaths, a train, and you laughing at something I never saw. Don't do it in one tap. Do it like weather. Press it and hold. One, two, three, four. Let go. Delete me slow. mBaileyz
