Map in Ashes

Verse 1 I sketched you once on the back of a receipt, mmh lines crooked like the porch-light through a mason jar it stretched from the crack in your laugh to the hush in your eyes— I thought it meant forever, but forever was just a word I couldn’t hold. Pre-Chorus Vivian—hey—your name was a compass I kept in my pocket smelled like wet wool, like rain on the ferry deck one syllable, alive, alive, alive... and I swear the whole room lit up when you said hello, just hello. Chorus We spun like two half-tuned mandolins leaning in the corner oh, twin stars, mmh, the world blurred, screen door slam at my mom’s house still ringing— days glowing, glowing, sun-drunk and endless, until the silence cracked. Verse 2 Infinity broke on a word you never said fragile as the dust on the cabin floor I thought love was gigantic, but it bled out slow, no cure for the wound we carried, no cure at all. Chorus Now your voice is an echo in the land-locked sea cold as November, map torn, folded, shoved in the glovebox— our kingdom gone bitter, our kingdom gone. Bridge I carry the ghost, mmh, limitless theme, phantom of you in the backseat dream Vivian-shaped hollow, still mine, still mine, still mine... Outro (soft, repeating) alive, alive, alive... oh— hello... hello...