[Intro] low pass on the chorus, true notice in your name. my hands are cold metal before they touch the frame. [Verse 1: Static On The Face] I saved that corner of your face in a low-res video file. now every time I try to save it, the pixels stretch and smile. there is dust on the speaker grill, smoke from my sleeve still warm. you asked if I would keep the truth or make it easier than this before. my thumb smears through your collarbone in a frame that will not hold. I call it home, then lose the key; the story bends and curls cold. [Pre-Chorus] the buffer hangs above us, a line of blue and white. i pull until the audio clips, you drift out from my sight. [Chorus: Memory Anchor] Warped Memory, smear across the glass. Warped Memory, time is moving backwards twice as fast. You are there, then you bend, echo in a corner room. I call your name into the static and find half of it turned to bloom. [Verse 2: The Curling Edge] you wore that ring with green stones, the one with the chipped top. now it slides through my pocket seam like proof I let it drop. the table lamp flickers yellow, two seconds out of time. I keep your voice from skipping over the part where you would stop. some parts are too quiet, others flare; the middle keeps to fray. if i could stitch the split together, i might forget this day. [Pre-Chorus] The buffer hangs above us, both of us in doubt. you laugh through a burst of static, stretching thin as smoke clouds out. [Chorus: Memory Anchor] Warped Memory, smear across the glass. Warped Memory, time is moving backwards twice as fast. You are there, then you bend, echo in a corner room. I call your name into the silence and find half of it turned to bloom. [Bridge: Breakdown] somewhere you said stay; somewhere I heard go. now both versions circle the same dead note below. i stop trying to fix the file, let the signal break and fall. the paper curls around your mouth; the memory takes it all. [Outro] one last frame sticks clear. your coat, my hand, the stair. saturation pulls away. warped memory remains.
