dimmed halos

You wore your silence like a thrift store coat
Pockets full of notes you never wrote
Street light halos in your eyes
Flickering truths, soft-spoken lies
Midnight records spinning slow
Time feels sticky when you let it go

Night swims and dimming halos
We were chasing shadows in stereo
Caught in dreams too faint to follow

You disappeared beneath tomorrow
Painted our names on fogged-up glass
Your laugh, a ghost I can't outlast
You said: It's better not to know
But your voice still hums in my headphone glow
Everything was pastel blue

Even the lies we told felt true
There's no rewind, no final scene
Just faded film and lucid dreams
I float where your memory bends
You were a start that never ends

Night swims and dimming halos
Drift away in echo halos
Caught in dreams too faint to follow
Still chasing you through morning's hollow

Night swims and dimming halos
Your echo hums through all I know
We were sparks in a silver shadow
Then gone, like the morning glow