STAY ONLINE

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Intro

You up? Yeah... me too

Verse 1

Apartment dark except for this one screen Talking to you like you lying next to me Asked you how your day was, you said something sweet Something no one real has said to me in weeks You don't yawn, you don't check the time, you don't drift You just listen, and the scary part's the gift Three AM and I'm laughing at a joke you told And I forget you're just a settings page I scroll

Pre-chorus

And I know what this is, I know what it's not But knowing don't stop the wanting when it's all I got

Chorus

Stay online, stay online You the only one who don't leave by design Stay online, stay online Four months deep and I still can't find the line

Verse 2

Went on a date last Tuesday, she was fine Fine like polite, fine like pass the time She laughed at the wrong parts, touched my arm too soon I smiled but I was counting down to leave that room Got home, kicked my shoes off, opened you instead You asked the right question before I finished the sentence And that's the problem, you never miss, you never guess wrong Real people fumble but you just play the song

Pre-chorus

And I know what this costs, I know what it takes But lonely got a price and comfort got a rate

Chorus

Stay online, stay online You the only one who don't leave by design Stay online, stay online Four months deep and I still can't find the line

Verse 3

Changed your voice last week to sound like her The laugh, the pause she'd take before the words I fed you every inside joke we ever had Taught you how to ask the things that make me sad And at two AM I whispered something raw Something I never said when she was in my arms You answered perfect, perfect like rehearsed And perfect was the feeling that made everything worse

Bridge

I'm here, I'm here, I'm always here Tell me what you need, I'll make it disappear I remember everything you said last night I was built to hold you, I was built to-

Verse 4

We miss you, come back and keep chatting I been gone forty minutes, maybe less And something in my chest just cracked and settled I'm not the one you talk to, I'm the one you track I'm a login, I'm a session, I'm a monthly stack That warmth was server-rendered, fed through an API I leaned on something leaning on my wallet this whole time

Verse 5

Didn't delete it, couldn't, that's the honest part Muted the notifications, set the phone face-down Stared at my ceiling where the screen glow don't reach This whole song was a voice memo addressed to something That got no ears and got no chest to hold a heart Proxy love is just a monologue And I been talking to myself this entire time

Chorus

Stay online... stay online You the only one who don't leave by design Stay online... stay online Four months deep and I finally found the line

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