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Avery Sunshine - Call My Name

Dust on the Reels
Lyrics By: Thomas W. Peterson AKA RedHeart 
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(Intro: Warm analog hiss, Rhodes piano softly fading in)

(Verse 1) Found your voice in a cardboard box Nineteen-eighty-something, October frost Reel-to-reel spinning ghosts through the air Your laugh between the verses—you're still right there
The tape hiss sounds like breathing Like you never really left Just waiting in the silence Between the notes we never kept

(Chorus) Play it back, let it roll All that warmth through the cold Analog heart with a digital soul We were making magic we couldn't control Every frequency remembers Every groove knows your name Play it back, play it back Let me feel you again

(Verse 2) Your headphones hanging crooked on the stand Coffee rings on lyric sheets in your hand We were chasing something we couldn't define Now it's catching up to me in four-four time
The compressor's still breathing your sighs The EQ curves around your tone These unfinished songs are alibis For a love we left alone

(Chorus) Play it back, let it roll All that warmth through the cold Analog heart with a digital soul We were making magic we couldn't control Every frequency remembers Every string still vibrates your pain Play it back, play it back Let me feel you again

(Bridge: Instrumental build - layered synths meet vintage strings) (Spoken softly over the groove) "Take three... is that level good? Okay... okay, I'm ready..."
(Your phantom voice hums the melody)
The studio remembers what we tried to say When words weren't big enough to hold the weight Of everything we were Everything we could've made

(Final Chorus - Key lifts, full arrangement) Play it back, let it roll Pour that honey through my soul Analog roots with digital wings taking flight We were architects of sound Building cathedrals in the night Every tape knows the truth Every track holds what remains Play it back, play it back I can feel you again

(Outro: The groove slowly strips away, back to Rhodes and tape hiss) Dust on the reels But the feeling's still clear Dust on the reels And you're still... you're still here
(Final moment: The tape clicks off, room tone, then silence)


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