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LOOK FINE lyrics
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Intro
Two fifteen on the dash and the A/C bites my hands Bass hum under my ribs, blue lights smear the glass I look composed in the mirror, that's the part that lies Click... click... green to yellow... I keep looking fine
Verse 1
Garage dust on my cuffs, neon still in my hair Street outside loud as hell, cabin cold and spare Got your name in my phone lit up soft in the tray I let it glow for a mile, then I looked away Not mad, not drunk, not chasing one more fight Just too many sounds still stuck in me tonight The city's wide awake, but my words got thin I roll past the on-ramp breathing through my chin
Pre-chorus
Window fog at the edges, pulse in my throat Every red light asks me for a sentence I don't know If I say "I'm alright," that ain't truth, that ain't spin It's just easier than naming where my head has been
Chorus
I know I look fine Hands at ten and two, eye line straight, jaw tight I know I look fine Like the whole world's working and I'm working right But the seatbelt's on my chest like a question mark tonight And the signal keeps time while I come undone in plain sight I know I look fine I know I look fine
Verse 2
You hear the quiet and think maybe I don't care Like silence means distance, like calm means I'm there Wish I knew how to tell you this ain't attitude It's the room still spinning hours after I left the room Your last text said "you good?" with a dot, no emoji Mine stayed half-typed, half-truth, half low-beam lonely I can carry the bags, crack a joke, hold the line That's been my worst trick, looking fine
Verse 3
Missed calls, dry mouth, left eye twitch in the dark Billboard light in the windshield breaking me apart Stomach tight as a fist, fingers cold on the wheel Every green light comes too fast for how slow I feel [Beat Switch] Rain turns the whole road into a shaken-up screen And your voice from last week bleeds into the machine My chest does that flutter like it's missing a stair I pull in extra straight like that means I'm repaired
Bridge
I almost called Thumb on your name, car still idling small Had one honest line "I'm not angry, baby, I'm barely inside" Then a bus sighed past And I let that moment go with the splash
Verse 4
I don't want your sleep wrecked by the shape of my night Don't want love turned nurse-light, kitchen-tile, dawn-white So I make myself simple, something easy to hold A voice note unsent, a story going cold Maybe that's care, maybe fear dressed clean Maybe both live together where the dashboard gleams I take the long bridge over black water and signs Still rehearsing the truth in smaller and smaller lines
Verse 5
No big cure waiting at the end of this lane No speech in the driveway to explain my brain Just tires on wet seams, just the heater kicked low Just another hour learning how not to let go The city stays festive, the city stays bright And I stay in one piece till the edge of the night Park. Engine tick. Road hum under the pines No miracle, just surviving Still looking fine
Outro
Click... click... Rearview, half-face, morning somewhere behind it Road hum Still here
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Two fifteen on the dash and the A/C bites my hands Bass hum under my ribs, blue lights smear the glass
Window fog at the edges, pulse in my throat Every red light asks me for a sentence I don't know
Click... click... Rearview, half-face, morning somewhere behind it
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