Please check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Steph_Marie_Music 🫶🫶🫶🫶 [Intro — instrumental only: fingerpicked acoustic, tremolo shimmer underneath, distant slide guitar moaning low, builds for 8-12 bars into Verse 1] [Verse 1] Rolled the window down past Marker Nine Watched your voice go spinnin' out of my life Screen still lit up beggin' one more call Hit the water and that was all Riverbed took it like it always knew It'd end up drowning' somethin' tied to you Static where your sweet talk used to be Silence never sounded this much like free [Pre-Chorus] You always said I'd come back crawlin' Said I couldn't live without the noise Funny how the quiet's callin' Like it's got a right to my voice [Chorus] There's static in the riverbed Where I left your name to drown Every lie you ever fed me Sinkin' slow without a sound I don't need the ringer screamin' Don't need you reachin' back again I'm the current now, not the reason You just washed up where it ends [Verse 2] Found my own frequency in the reeds Somethin' steadier than your need You called it love, I call it a leash Glad the river don't talk back like you I used to flinch at every buzz and blink Now I just watch the water think Carryin' off what you swore was gold Turns out it was just dead weight, and cold [Pre-Chorus] You always said I'd come back crawlin' Said I couldn't live without the noise Funny how the quiet's callin' Like it's got a right to my voice [Chorus] There's static in the riverbed Where I left your name to drown Every lie you ever fed me Sinkin' slow without a sound I don't need the ringer screamin' Don't need you reachin' back again I'm the current now, not the reason You just washed up where it ends [Bridge — stripped to acoustic and voice, then swirling cosmic breakdown builds underneath] Somewhere past that riverbank You're still callin', still not answered No bars left for you to reach me No signal for a ghost or a chancer I ain't the girl who waits on ringtones I ain't the girl who begs for proof I'm the quiet after your storm passed And baby, I'm the truth [Final Chorus — full band swell, acoustic strum driving, gang vocals join on last line] There's static in the riverbed Where I left your name to drown Every lie you ever fed me Sinkin' slow without a sound I don't need the ringer screamin' Don't need you reachin' back again I'm the current now, not the reason You just washed up where it ends [Outro — instrumental only: acoustic strum fades into tremolo swirl, distant slide guitar trailing off, tape hiss dissolving into silence]
