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Lyric

Decoded Promises

Tera Kira

Leaning close to your ear—you've always been so tall

Whispering a silent heat that has nowhere left to fall

The heat haze on the asphalt sweeps it all away

Trapping last year’s summer in a circuit, come what may

The scent of chlorine and the ghost of your cologne

Merging into a stain, a mark I’ve always known

"I'll never forget you, as long as I live."

I decode those uncertain words you decided to give

And then... I swim through the night

Under the streetlamp, the buzzing noise of gathering wings—

That was the only love song we ever had, the only thing that sings

From my fingertips, the transparency begins to rise

My form is being decomposed into zeros and ones before my eyes

The rhythm of my heart refuses to synchronize

Ah... it's getting hot again

Stardust and a sugary scent, they start to sing

The night breeze and a faint regret, they start to sing

My forehead, pressed against the shadow of your ear

Stings and throbs, a prickling pain I’ve come to fear

Even if I hold my breath in the water’s cold embrace

The more I try to prove it, the more it leaves no trace

A blue, deep, sinking chord

In the crack where the world stops being the world anymore

Like tearing through the mane of a white stallion on the run

A merry-go-round slowing down, its journey nearly done

Spinning, spinning, until the scenery begins to melt

An instant of eternity, trapped in amber where it knelt

Hey... right now

Where are you? And whose dream are you seeing?

The painful joy, the aching chest—

Don't peel me away from this season’s rest!

Memories and old circuits, they start to sing

The gap between the light and shade, they start to sing

My fingers reaching for your back, too far to ever hold

Tremble with a prickling sting, shivering and cold

Staying drowned inside a dream, sugary and sweet

The more I scratch at it, the more the love feels complete

A red, faint, bleeding noise

At the moment I stop being "me," and lose my voice

Singing... forever

Forgetting... forever

The dream of a beetle

...Goodbye

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