“Ghost in the Group Chat”

Verse 1 2AM, the ceiling’s breathing slow Blue light spilling like a winter moon I hold a world inside my palm But it don’t hold me back in return Everyone’s a firework somewhere Laughing in a different kind of warm And I’m the shadow at the edge of it A quiet boy in digital storms Pre-Chorus It’s strange how I can feel so close To faces I don’t touch Like I’m drinking from the ocean And still not getting enough Chorus I’m a ghost in the group chat A name that flickers, then goes black I’m a ghost in the group chat Like a song nobody plays back I watch your life in fragments Through a cracked and glowing glass And I fade into the static Like a ghost in the group chat Verse 2 I start a sentence, bite my tongue Let it sink before it hits the shore The little lights keep coming on But they don’t mean what they meant before It’s all heart-shaped fireworks Over streets I’ll never drive And I’m just parked outside the feeling With the engine running in my mind Pre-Chorus 2 I keep my sadness small and neat Fold it up where no one sees But it spills out in the silence In between the “how you been”s Chorus I’m a ghost in the group chat A name that flickers, then goes black I’m a ghost in the group chat Like a song nobody plays back I watch your life in fragments Through a cracked and glowing glass And I fade into the static Like a ghost in the group chat Bridge (half-time, airy, emotional) So I lay the phone down like a stone And let the room come back to life Hear my heartbeat in the floorboards Like it’s asking me to fight If I’m always within reach Why can’t anybody hold me? If I’m screaming in the signal Why can’t anybody know me? And the night rolls on forever But there’s mercy in the dark ’Cause the stars don’t need permission To be exactly what they are Final Chorus (bigger + resolution) I’m a ghost in the group chat But I’m tired of coming last Yeah I’m a ghost in the group chat In a room made out of glass So I’m stepping out the doorway Let the blue light lose its grasp If you love me, come and find me Not a ghost in the group chat No, you love me—come and find me Not a ghost in the group chat