[Title: Mouth Full of You] [Intro | sparse Rhodes, single dry finger snap every two beats, room-tone silence between notes] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Verse 1] [Intimate, barely above a whisper] I keep your voicemail saved on a phone I dropped in the lake Seven seconds of you laughing at something I said I've been pulling out the battery, putting it back Just to hear the static where your voice should be instead [Pre-Chorus | bass enters, one low note held under the breath] [Breathy] [Chorus] [Intimate, controlled ache] I've got a mouth full of you, nowhere left to spit Every word I try to say comes out counterfeit I swallow and I swallow and it doesn't quit A mouth full of you [Instrumental Break | Rhodes drops out, bass holds one note, finger snaps alone, breath of room tone] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Verse 2] [Whispered, confessional] You left a single earring on my bathroom shelf The kind with the little hinge that broke on one side I superglued it shut like that was helping myself Now it just sits there, fixed, with nowhere left to hide Some people burn the letters — I frame the broken things I don't know what that makes me, but I know what it means [Chorus] [Intimate, controlled ache] I've got a mouth full of you, nowhere left to spit Every word I try to say comes out counterfeit I swallow and I swallow and it doesn't quit A mouth full of you [Instrumental Break | bass drops out completely, Rhodes plays two chords and stops, silence] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Bridge] [Spoken-sung, raw, no reverb] And God, I have tried — I have talked to strangers in airport bars about closure I have nodded when they said give it time I have given it time [Sung, rising, unguarded] My friend says I wear it like a second skin She said, baby, you are not a shrine And she's right — she is absolutely right But righteousness is just another thing I can't taste anymore [Powerful, raw] Because you're still in my mouth You're still in my mouth You're still in my mouth at 2 PM on a Tuesday When nothing is romantic and everything should be fine [Chorus] [Intimate, exhausted, barely holding] I've got a mouth full of you, nowhere left to spit Every word I try to say comes out counterfeit I swallow and I swallow and it doesn't quit A mouth full of you [Outro | Rhodes fades to single notes, bass gone, one finger snap then nothing] [Whispered] Seven seconds Just the laugh Just the static after Just my thumb on the battery again [Fade Out | room tone, one last Rhodes note, silence]
