NYZA ORIGINALS
Residue
She walks past the coffee shop where he always ordered black coffee, no sugar, and her body remembers the feeling of his hand on the small of her back. Three months later, she still can't order anything without tasting him in it—not the coffee, but the absence of him, sticky and bitter on her tongue.
Lyrics
Verse 1
You're on the rim of every cup I drink
In the steam that fades before I blink
Not in the words, but in the space between
Where you were real and I was clean
Chorus
You're residue, residue
Stuck beneath my fingernails, can't shake you loose
You're residue, residue
Sweet enough to keep, too sharp to prove
Verse 2
I wear your ghost like perfume on my skin
Can't remember how you let me in
But I remember how you walked away
Left the door unlocked, me on the day
Chorus
You're residue, residue
Stuck beneath my fingernails, can't shake you loose
You're residue, residue
Sweet enough to keep, too sharp to prove
Bridge
I'm cleaning rooms you never lived in
Looking for proof that something was given
But all I find is the outline, the shape
Of a hand that learned too late to stay
Outro
Residual, residual
You're the taste I can't spit out