Digital phones

Verse 1

I met a girl from California, skin like California gold

She swore I was the only man her heart would ever hold

I gave her every secret that my tired soul could hide

But while I slept beside her, she was living other lives

Different name for every corner of that glowing screen

Queen of a digital kingdom I’d never even seen

Chorus

She’s got an email for the family with the name her mama gave

An alias for the dark nights when she needs to misbehave

Burner phone on the West Coast, another lover on the plains

Login for the smoke shops and a profile for the games

It’s a modern kind of heartbreak, cuts you straight down to the bone

When you find out the girl you loved was five different people on a phone

Verse 2

She built a fortress out of usernames and pretty little lies

An island warrior alias just to feel more alive

I was out here in the real world, sweat dripping in the dirt

While she was spinning silver webs just to see how much it’d hurt

You can change your handle every hour of the day

But you can’t outrun the wreckage that you leave along the way

Chorus

She’s got an email for the family with the name her mama gave

An alias for the dark nights when she needs to misbehave

Burner phone on the West Coast, another lover on the plains

Login for the smoke shops and a profile for the games

It’s a modern kind of heartbreak, cuts you straight down to the bone

When you find out the girl you loved was five different people on a phone

Bridge

And the hardest part of bleeding is the silence that remains

She packed it up for Oklahoma, hiding secrets in her veins

Left me standing here in Oregon, still trying to find my name

While she’s already in the next town playing that exact same game

Guitar Solo (melancholy acoustic slide, let it cry)

Outro

So let the servers keep her secrets, let the routers chase her ghost

I’m locking down my own damn life, I ain’t looking back no more

Keep your logins and your aliases, hide behind that screen

You’re the loneliest ghost I’ve ever known, Ashley…

Just a ghost on a phone.

And I’m finally letting go.