Flicker

**Verse 1**

The TV’s on but there’s no sound

Blue light washing over the ground

I sit where you used to lean

Like the space might still mean something

Your glass is still beside the sink

I haven’t moved it — I can’t think

If I disturb what’s left of you

The silence might become the truth

**Pre-Chorus**

Every small thing stays

Like it’s holding you in place

But I know better than to believe

Memory equals heartbeat

**Chorus**

You were a flicker in my hands

Warm for a moment, then gone again

I keep replaying how it felt

Like I could keep you if I held on tight

But love slips through

It always does

And I’m left here

With what it was

**Verse 2**

I hear your laugh inside my head

It sounds different now — more distant

Like a recording losing grain

Breaking up in the quiet

I tried to hate you for a while

Thought anger might replace the smile

But even that just fades to grey

And leaves me here the same

**Pre-Chorus**

There’s no villain in this

No grand goodbye

Just two people

And time

**Chorus**

You were a flicker in my hands

I swore I felt forever then

But forever’s just a word we say

When we’re scared of what could end

Now I walk through

Rooms we knew

And everything

Still points to you

**Bridge (hushed, layered harmonies)**

If I see you somewhere new

Will it hurt the way it used to?

Or have I already lost you

More than once?

**Break (low, restrained swell)**

I don’t need closure

I don’t need blame

Just something solid

I can name

**Final Chorus (soft, almost breaking)**

You were a flicker in my hands

And I keep searching for the flame

But ashes don’t remember fire

And I don’t look the same

If love was real

It still can be

Just not for you

And not for me

**Outro**

The screen goes black

The room stays blue

And I sit here

Missing you