Velvet Static

There is a frequency between us

not silence, not sound

something softer than absence

something that hums where the wires crossed

I've been wearing your static like velvet

pressed against my collarbone

each crackle a reminder

that what we made was never really clean

Chorus

Hold the line or drop it completely

don't leave me in this in-between

I'd rather burn in full contact

than dissolve in your frequency machine

You said connection was complicated

I said yes before you finished

now I'm learning the shape of alone

by tracing where you used to live

Bridge

Every signal finds its static

every love finds its decay

I'm not asking you to save me

just to mean the things you say

The velvet is wearing thin now

through it I can almost see

the clean geometry of ending

and the terrible calm it brings to me