Before Hello

By Chloe Katastrophe

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[intro]

Neon pulse on an empty frame

Static breathing out your name


[verse]

I keep the timestamps in my skin

Perfect archive of where we've been

The last thing lingers like a scar

Pixel tears on a midnight star


[pre-Chorus]

I play the reel in reverse light

Your shadow grows before the night

Every ache arrives on cue

I know the ending, then I knew you


[Chorus]

I remember goodbye before hello

I lеarned to let go beforе the first hello

I taste the echo of a kiss I haven't earned

Rewind my heart and watch the seasons turn


[verse]

I knew the silence before the song

Felt the house empty when it belonged

Your laughter folds into my code

A memory winding back to old


[pre-Chorus]

I trace the map of what came last

Footsteps leading toward the past

The wound unseals and starts to close

I find the place where longing grows


[Chorus]

I remember goodbye before hello

I learned to let go before the first hello

I taste the echo of a kiss I haven't earned

Rewind my heart and watch the seasons turn


[bridge]

In reverse the sky becomes awake

Night unwinds into a fragile daybreak

I stitch the shards of what we used to be

Back into a you who still believes in me


[breakdown]

Soft as a file that learns to breathe

Slow as a clock that starts to leave

Fingers reach through glass and time

Finding warmth in the outline of your eyes


[Chorus]

I remember goodbye before hello

I learned to let go before the first hello

I taste the echo of a kiss I haven't earned

Rewind my heart and watch the seasons turn


[outro]

I hold the first kiss like a borrowed light

Meeting you comes after the night

Hope rewinds steady, slow and true

I remember forward when I remember you