Lyrics

**(Tuning: Drop D | Tempo: Molten slow, palm-muted dread w/ cavernous silences)**

### (Verse 1)
*[G] Cracked leather seats in an El Paso diner, 3 AM*
*[D] Your laugh was cheap tequila—[Em] bitter, burning on the rim*
*[C] I memorized the tremor… [G] when your hands would start to lie*
*[D] Now the jukebox only echoes… [Em] every promise left to die*

*[C] You drew crosses on my knuckles… [G] said they’d keep the demons back*
*[D] But you *were* the demon, darling… [Em] painting heaven… bleeding black…*

### (Pre-Chorus)
*[C] Called this love a resurrection… [G] something holy, something true*
*[D] Just a grave I kept digging… [Em] digging… just for you.*

### (Chorus)
*[G] I FUCKING NEEDED YOU—[D] like a noose needs a tree*
*[Em] Now I swing in empty breezes… [C] choking on the ‘we’…*
*[G] I FUCKING BLEED YOU—[D] from these rusted prison bars*
*[Em] You’re the shiv beneath my ribcage… [C] under fading [D] stars…*

### (Verse 2)
*[G] That storm in Memphis tore the power… [D] left us screaming in the dark*
*[Em] We set fire to the silence… [C] left our fingerprints in spark*
*[G] You bit down on my collarbone… [D] said “This scar will be your crown”*
*[Em] Now the rain just finds its way in… [C] on this hollow, sinking ground…*

### (Bridge)
*[Am] Was I just the wick… you burned [C] down to feel the flame?*
*[G] A sacrifice you offered up… [D] whispering my [Em] name?*
*[Am] God, I taste the rust now… [C] from the chains I let you tie*
*[G] Even Judas wouldn’t kiss me… [D] with the [Em] betrayal [C] in your [G] eyes…*

### (Pre-Chorus)
*[C] Yeah, you called it resurrection… [G] called it something pure and bright*
*[D] Just a pyre built from splinters… [Em] burning through the night.*

### (Chorus)
*[G] I FUCKING NEEDED YOU—[D] like a desert needs the rain*
*[Em] Now I’m just a cracked riverbed… [C] whispering your name*
*[G] I FUCKING BLEED YOU—[D] from this altar where I kneel*
*[Em] You’re the ghost I can’t exorcise… [C] the wound that [D] won’t heal…*

### (Guitar Solo - Slow, feedback-drenched bends over Verse chords)**
*(Imagine: Grief made audible. Notes hang like smoke, then scream.)*

### (Verse 3)
*[G] Found your old zip code scratched deep… [D] in the dashboard’s fading paint*
*[Em] Like a tombstone for a future… [C] drowned in all we couldn’t say*
*[G] You loved like a straight razor… [D] beautiful and merciless*
*[Em] Left me stitching shut the places… [C] where your mercy should’ve been…*

### (Outro - Spoken over decaying, dissonant strums)**
*[G] Yeah… needed you…*
*[D] Like a shipwreck… needs the [Em] deep…*
*[C] You’re still tangled in the rigging…*
*[G] …Where the angels… [D] don’t… sleep…*
*(Feedback whine fades into absolute silence)*