Male vocal singer-songwriter confessional lyrics, set to 78 BPM, G minor mode. Core instrumentation: warm acoustic fingerpicked nylon-string guitar, soft upright piano flourishes, brushed snare light percussion, muted cello swells for quiet emotional accents, raw unpolished intimate male vocal delivery. Theme: A late-night bus ride home from a friend’s wedding, where the narrator spots a faded amusement park ticket stub in his jacket pocket, stumbles into unspoken grief over a half-planned road trip with a sibling who moved across the world and cut contact. Lyric tone is soft, tenderly regretful, with small specific roadside imagery, no loud drama, quiet vulnerability in every line, matching Lewis Capaldi’s raw confessional warmth.
歌词
[Intro] [Verse] Bus window cold against my head Wedding cake and words we said Tight collar and a rented vest Put my heavy heart to rest Engine hums a low G note Shaking in my wool coat [Pre-Chorus] Reach deep inside the lining A silver ghost is shining Blue ink on a paper scrap Falling right into my lap [Chorus] It was for the Ferris wheel Back when we were real The highway map we never drew The miles I meant to spend with you Now you’re half a world away With nothing left for me to say Just a ghost in another time zone Leaving me to ride home alone [Post-Chorus] Ride home alone In a town we used to own Ride home alone Where the seeds of grief are sown [Verse] Gas stations glowing neon green The quietest life I’ve ever seen Wet asphalt like a mirror floor I don’t know who I’m waiting for You packed your life in wooden crates While I stayed stuck behind these gates [Pre-Chorus] I touch the edges of the card Thinking why it’s still so hard To let the summer plans decay And watch the colors fade to gray [Chorus] It was for the Ferris wheel Back when we were real The highway map we never drew The miles I meant to spend with you Now you’re half a world away With nothing left for me to say Just a ghost in another time zone Leaving me to ride home alone [Bridge] Did you find what you needed there? In that thin and distant air? I kept the car keys on the hook Just like the photos that we took But the phone stays silent on the nightstand A road trip lost in shifting sand [Verse] They toasted to the happy pair While I just sat and breathed the air Thinking of the coast we missed And every dream that we dismissed I fold the ticket small and tight And lose it in the city light [Chorus] It was for the Ferris wheel Back when we were real The highway map we never drew The miles I meant to spend with you Now you’re half a world away With nothing left for me to say Just a ghost in another time zone Leaving me to ride home alone [Outro]
评论 (0)
加载中…