She's Still Smiling on the Billboard

Intro Hundred stories tall, and her teeth still shine

Verse 1 They lit her up above the salt-white flats Sold forever off the curve of her jaw I dug that mouth a hole with my own two hands Now it mouths the words she never once saw The billboard blinks, she leans, she buys, she smiles A face I washed and closed and laid down deep They kept the skin and threw away the girl And rent the wife I never got to keep

Pre-Chorus Every mile she gets brighter Every mile I get less sure Is that her, or just the wanting For a face I can't restore

Chorus She's still smiling on the billboard Selling something I already lost Chrome girl grinning down the highway Wearing my dead wife like a cost She's still smiling on the billboard And I can't tell the copy from the ghost

Verse 2 I could pay the fee and reboot her tonight Watch her flicker warm and call my name But the thing that answers wouldn't smell of rain Wouldn't flinch the way she used to when it came So I drive the herd past her hundred floors Chrome gun on my hip, worn six-string on my spine They wiped the town of every shot she made But they can't wipe the sound of her from mine

Pre-Chorus Every mile she gets brighter Every mile I get less sure Is that her, or just the wanting For a face I can't restore

Chorus She's still smiling on the billboard Selling something I already lost Chrome girl grinning down the highway Wearing my dead wife like a cost She's still smiling on the billboard And I can't tell the copy from the ghost

Bridge What if she's in there, scratching at the code Screaming through the pixels no one hears What if I'm the crazy one who buried The last true thing and drove away in tears She's still smiling on the billboard Selling something I already lost Chrome girl grinning down the highway Wearing my dead wife like a cost She's still smiling on the billboard And I can't tell the copy from the ghost

Outro Keep on smiling on the billboard I'll keep the one they can't reload

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