Patient Zero
Verse 1
Neon bleeding blue into a whiskey glass
Rain tapping numbers on the window like the past
There’s a girl at the bar with her hands around a flame
Laughing with a stranger like I used to say your name
Funny what survives after all these years
Smoke in the rafters and certain kinds of fear
I still wear your leaving like a wire under clothes
Guess some things get buried, some things just corrode
Pre-Chorus
You kissed me like a secret with nowhere left to go
And I turned into the kind of man I swore I’d never know
Chorus
I was patient zero
First one in the line
First set of cracked headlights drifting past the county sign
You broke something open in a boy too young to know
How easy hurt can travel when nobody says no
Now there’s hearts all over this town
With a little of my smoke
Yeah, I was patient zero
Verse 2
There’s a scar on my knuckle from a night I can’t place
There’s a dozen empty bedrooms floating through my brain
Some of them were angels, some just passing through
Most of them were looking for somebody that was you
I got good at leaving before the morning came
Good at saying forever like it didn’t mean a thing
Funny how the fever starts to feel like home
After you spend half your life trying not to be alone
Pre-Chorus
Maybe you were lonely
Maybe I was weak
Maybe some doors only open when they break the hinges clean
Chorus
I was patient zero
First burn, first flood
First one to find out love can get inside your blood
Now I move through people like a curse I can’t outrun
Turning small-town girls into damage for someone
Yeah, the chain keeps stretching out
Long after you let go
I was patient zero
Bridge
Maybe there was someone who did it all to you
Maybe pain’s a language people pass around like truth
Maybe every sad song started somewhere just like this
One heart going dark halfway through a kiss
Final Chorus
I’m patient zero
Last call, closing time
Watching my reflection blur beneath the neon light
And there’s a kid by the jukebox looking twenty-two
Holding onto somebody the way I held onto you
I wanna tell him run
But I probably won’t
’Cause tonight he looks a little like
Patient zero
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