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STILL BREATHING THROUGH THE STATIC
One Breath, One More Thing
About the song
A phone that never stops talking, a room that never moves, and one man deciding the noise doesn't get to do his work for him.
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STILL BREATHING THROUGH THE STATIC lyrics
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Intro
Two seventeen, blue phone light climbing the wall. Fridge motor, bus brakes, somebody upstairs pacing. The phone keeps talking while the room stays put.
Verse 1
Rent alert red, same check sitting thin. Cart had six things; three went back before the card went in. Gas sign changed twice this week, I know it by the glow. Thumb keeps moving like a job, but nothing in the room moves. One clip says panic, next clip says pick a side. Two men yell through six-inch screens with the same bags under their eyes. Comments turn a bad day into teams and uniforms. Kitchen clock keeps time while the whole feed sounds alarms. I know the game: keep me mad enough to stay. Sell me ten new reasons why my hands can't change the day. Then the screen goes black and catches half my face. For one second, all that noise has nowhere left to play.
Chorus
Breathing through the static, signal weak, but both feet stay planted. Static can tell me what to fear, it cannot do the work that's here. I don't need the feed to move me. I build from what is left to me.
Verse 2
Morning laundromat, one outlet by the chair. Guy beside me got the same low-battery stare. His shirt says something I would scroll past in a fight. He asks, "You using this?" I slide the charger right. No speech. No grand reset. Just thirty borrowed watts. He watches my bag while I run out to the lot. Across the street, two women trade a grocery cart. One votes one way, maybe. I don't know. That's not the part. The part is everybody's counting what can stretch. Time, rent, patience, miles, the week before the check. I lock the screen. The dryers turn. The room gets small. Funny how a face gets harder to hate than a wall.
Chorus
Breathing through the static, signal weak, but both feet stay planted. Static can tell me what to fear, it cannot do the work that's here. I don't need the feed to move me. I build from what is left to me.
Bridge
Some nights the weight wins for a minute, and both hands rest on my knees. I got no clean line that makes the numbers leave. Then one breath comes, then one more thing gets done.
Chorus
Breathing through the static, signal weak, but both feet stay planted. Static can tell me what to fear, it cannot do the work that's here. No headline gets my next two hands. I build from what I understand. Breathing through the static. I am here. That is enough to start.
Outro
Still breathing through the static. One breath. One more thing.
Inside the recording
Two seventeen, blue phone light climbing the wall. Fridge motor, bus brakes, somebody upstairs pacing.
Breathing through the static, signal weak, but both feet stay planted.
Still breathing through the static. One breath. One more thing.
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