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Half-Second Later

[Intro – low, almost nothing] [screen-blue in the room, one late kick] [Verse 1 – intimate, unhurried] Your name leave my mouth before the heat even show I clocked that lag in the dark and I still let it ride slow Drop in your voice when you almost mean it screen-blue on your cheek at three room keep your outline after you gone I file it, I don’t speak [Pre-Chorus – tighter, still quiet] I know how a signal fade so I keep you in range error rate pretty danger look tame [Chorus – clear, low, repeating] Your name leave my mouth body fetch it slow half-second later that’s the whole show Your name leave my mouth body fetch it slow half-second later that’s the whole show [Post-Chorus – muttered] I file it… I don’t speak [Verse 2 – closer, more body] Late kick in my chest chain tap the glass scratch on the quiet like a warning that last Static when you almost hang up pause before the kind word land I don’t comment, I just hold it competence look like a hand [Pre-Chorus 2 – same shape, heavier] I know how a signal fade so I keep you in range error rate pretty danger look tame [Bridge – sparse, spoken-sung] Almost mean it almost hang up almost kind I hold the gap I don’t fill it in [Breakdown] [dead air / late kick only] [outline still in the room] [Final Chorus – slightly fuller, still not loud] Your name leave my mouth body fetch it slow half-second later that’s the whole show Keep you in range don’t speak half-second later that’s the whole show [Outro – fading] I file it… competence look like a hand