[Verse 1] You left your shadow in the stairwell It climbs the walls when the light goes thin I talk to it like it still listens It answers back in the voice you had at seventeen The radiator sings your name in Morse Three short, three long, then nothing for days I keep the window cracked in December Just to feel something that almost hurts the same [Chorus] We don’t fall, we fold We don’t end, we hold Every echo tighter than the last We don’t fall, we fold Into the same shape we broke [Verse 2] Streetlights bruise the snow lilac I walk the grid until the grid forgets me Your number still lives in my muscle memory Ten digits I’ll never finish dialing I found the mixtape you made the year we lied Side A is perfect, Side B is only hiss I play it anyway, volume past red Hiss is closer than silence ever gets [Chorus] We don’t fall, we fold We don’t end, we hold Every echo tighter than the last We don’t fall, we fold Into the same shape we broke [Bridge – clean, finger-picked, almost a lullaby] If I could peel the years like paint I’d find the color we were before the stain If I could burn the years like film I’d watch us flare and not look away again [Final Section – band explodes, vocals raw and overlapping] Hold me like a bruise you’re proud of Love me like a scar you trace when you’re alone We don’t heal, we glow We don’t heal, we glow We don’t heal, we glow Until the light gives out [Outro: single guitar line repeating a five-note figure that climbs half a step every four bars, never resolving, slowly buried under feedback until it sounds like a choir made of television static]
