[Verse] The wound inside is still awake— it hums at night, it keeps the shape of you Let the clocks do what they have to do; every heart here needs a season or two [Pre-Chorus] Till we can wear this ache like vintage lace, laugh too loud at the ghost of your face [Chorus] I won’t call it evil, I won’t call it gold, just a story that folded when the night got cold I don’t wish you thunder, I don’t wish you rain— I only wish you out of my veins I don’t want you now, not now, I don’t want you now— no, never again [Turn] Slide-guitar walk-down, half-time drums, Lydian lift on “never again” [Verse] One day we’ll trade this hurt for a joke, coffee steam curling like yesterday’s smoke That’s how the globe keeps turning in place— tiny shoes, tiny strides, no finish-line tape [Chorus] I won’t call it evil… (repeat & ad-lib) [Outro] Never again… (echo fade, tape-warble) [Style:Soft-Rock AOR with 2024 Glide Tempo: 74 BPM | Key: A-major 7 (lydian lift on the chorus) Drums: Yamaha “Warmth” kit, lightly gated snare, bussed to 1/4-note tape slap. Bass: P-bass with flat-wounds, ghost-notes copied to a Minimoog layer for width. Hook: Slide-guitar answering the vocal line (think Dire Straits meets Marcos Valle). Reference blend: “Easy” (Lionel Richie) × “Tangerine” by Led Zeppelin, but sung in velvet Portuguese-English. Emotion: Sunset highway, top down, ex’s sweater still in the glove box.]
