Crossed Wires
Ballad for a Dead Lover
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You say a word and I hear another We speak in codes we never taught each other I build a sentence, you tear it down Two translations of the same lost sound
And I'm so tired of the in-between Of all the meaning trapped behind a screen
What's the frequency between us? Static where the words should be You're a song on the wrong station Almost, almost reaching me What's the frequency between us? I keep turning up the noise Drowning out the only thing I ever wanted — just your voice
A heart, a comma, then you disappear I read it ten times, still can't get near We argue in the margins of a text Never knowing what the other meant
So I reached out and I took the glass The phone in your hand — I let it smash Mine beside it, screens gone black You looked at me like you'd just seen me back
No more frequency between us Just the quiet that we share You smiled first, then I was smiling Pulled you close, no signal there No more frequency between us Nothing left to misread now Skin and breath and not a screen We found the words somehow
We found the words somehow