RLD Studio
Inner Landscapes

CHOICES

by RLD Ensemble
Lyrics
Static on the radio at 3 AM
Your ghost sits in my passenger seat
The words I practiced in my head again
Dissolve like sugar in the morning heat
Coffee rings on the notebook page
Where I wrote your name in blue
Twenty-seven, still afraid
Of conversations I can’t undo
This is the last conversation
We’re never gonna have
All these midnight confessions
Locked inside a photograph
Words like vintage postcards
Never sent but never thrown away
The last conversation
Lives in shades of grey
Found your sweater in the lost and found
Of my memory’s thrift store
Played that song you loved on repeat now
Till the needle wore the grooves too sore
I rehearsed it in the shower steam
In grocery store checkout lines
How I’d tell you what these three years mean
If the universe would just align
This is the last conversation
We’re never gonna have
All these midnight confessions
Locked inside a photograph
Words like vintage postcards
Never sent but never thrown away
The last conversation
Lives in shades of grey
(Stripped back — piano and voice only)
Polaroids of possibilities
Fade in boxes underneath my bed
While the city hums its melodies
I’m still talking to you in my head
Maybe this is the conversation
We were always meant to have
Through the static and the distance
In the space between the laughs
Words like paper airplanes
Finally learning how to fly
Our last conversation
Written in the sky