Drama broke my Algorithm

Verse 3

I built a habitat out of the things you forgot

Like that receipt from the diner and a ceramic pot

My patience is wearing thin like a cheap winter coat

While you stay afloat on some distant passenger boat

And it's weird right

How you can occupy a whole room without being there

It's just the shape of the chair and the way it grabs the air

I'm overthinking

Bridge 2

There’s a hole in the drywall where the amp used to sit

And a scent in the carpet that won’t ever quit

The radiator hums in a key you can’t hit

It’s a five-string melody with a fractured bit

Now my shoulder is sore from the way I’ve been leaning

Into

Verse 4

I’m picking at the label of a lukewarm ginger ale

Calculating every single way that we could fail

In the hallway where the wallpaper is starting to peel

I’m trying to remember if the feelings were real

Or just a side effect of the high-pass filter

Bridge 4

Pulling back the curtains let a little light bleed

I'm planting different flowers since I don't want the weed

Of your memory choking out the rest of the yard

Funny how a soft heart makes the rest of me hard

To get through to

Post-Outro

(Gasps for air)

Wait

I didn't mean to close the book so quick

There's a snapshot of us looking kind of thick-skinned

In the gravel pit where the sunflowers grew

I’m allergic but I sniffed them just for you

And that stupid plastic ring you won at the fair

Is still tangling the fibers of my hair

Emotional Bridge

I'm tracing the outline of a ghost on the porch

Carrying the handle but I’m dropping the torch

(Heavy breathing)

You were my favorite disaster area

A localized fever of hysteria

The way you’d mispronounce every third word

Was the sweetest damn thing I ever heard

Yeah

Vocal Break

Ah-ah-ah-ah

Spoken Postscript

(Mic bumping noise)

Wait stop

Just one more thought before the tape runs out

My tectonic plates are shifting and I need to shout

But like a stage-whisper

Yeah

Reprise

(Vibrato intensifies)

It wasn't a wreck it was a beautiful dent

I’m cataloging every second we spent

Trading our oxygen for cheap garden hose wine

Looking for a proverb or a cosmic sign

In the pattern of the lint on the duvet cover

You were a messy kind of tectonic lover

Grand Finale

(Voice straining)

(Raspy belts)

Now I’m exhaling the carbon of your ghost

I’m the uninvited guest and the perfect host

Of this neuro-pathway that leads to your door

I’ve got bruises on my knees from the hardwood floor

(Voice breaks)

But I’m standing up tall in the violet glare

Combing out the static and the knots in my hair

(Glottal stops)

It-it-it’s okay that you didn’t stay

I’m better at the game since I learned how to play

With my cards face down in the pooling sink

I finally found a way to stop having to think

About the specific way you would say my name

Like it was a prayer or a crying shame

Ethereal Outro

(Multi-layered