Signal For Her Dredge (Final Cut)

[Start] [Intro – Spoken / Tape Hiss, Drum Machine Clicking] I don’t know your name. That feels important. Probably should’ve started there. [pause] Anyway... this one’s yours. [Verse 1] I built a room out of feedback And slept beside the wires Fed my little drum machine Coins and bad desires Guitar hums like a streetlight Outside some closed-down bar I keep writing maps to nowhere With your face as the star I never held your jacket Never walked you home in rain Never heard you say my name right Still I miss it just the same [Pre-Chorus] And I know that sounds pathetic I can hear myself from here Like a ghost with a cheap amp Begging static to appear [Chorus] So if you hear me Through the wall tonight I’m the sad little signal In the bad porch light I don’t need forever I don’t need the world I just need one second To be seen by her By her By her The girl I can’t name But I ruin every song for her [Verse 2] I wrote you in the margins Of bills I didn’t pay Put your shadow in the chorus Let it swallow half the day My friends say, “Go meet someone” Like that’s how hearts behave Like you can swap out weather Like a shirt you never saved I’m not calling this devotion That would give it too much grace It’s more like mold in old rooms Something living in the space [Pre-Chorus] And I laugh because I should laugh Or the silence gets too clear I’m a grown man making mixtapes For a woman who’s not here [Chorus] So if you hear me Through the wall tonight I’m the sad little signal In the bad porch light I don’t need forever I don’t need the world I just need one second To be seen by her By her By her The girl I can’t name But I ruin every song for her [Break – Guitars Sag, Beat Glitches] [pause] I keep thinking... maybe love is just bad reception from a better life. [Bridge] I don’t want to own you I don’t want to win I don’t want to drag you Through the mess I’m standing in I just want the mercy Of your eyes across a room Like sunlight through a basement Like the lie that flowers bloom And if that’s all I get Then I’ll make that enough Then I’ll dress it up in distortion And call the damage love [Final Chorus] If you hear me Through the wall tonight I’m the sad little signal In the bad porch light I don’t need forever I don’t need the world I just need one second To be seen by her By her By her The girl I can’t name But I ruin every song for her [Outro – Spoken / Amp Buzz Fading] I still don’t know your name. That’s probably for the best. Names make ghosts too real. [pause] Goodnight. [End]