One Percent Left

3:27

Red battery 1% left
Backseat washed in red From passing light
Freight white cable dead against the night
Driver said that charge had buzzin' work
Then lowered the song beneath my final word
Your name was waitin' under my right thumb
The battery flashed, all my fingers went numb
Bridge lamps counted backward on the glass
I touched your name before the river passed

One ring, two rings, battery red
Your voice came through hello, you said no room for more One truth ahead

One percent left of you
Red warning said go
One last sentence before the screen let go
I loved you realest call is my goodbye
One percent left I spent it on goodbye

One percent left of you
No time to edit say clean
One percent left of you
One percent left of you
Spend it on goodbyes

Speech and notes ran three full screens long
Every place you failed each turn that went wrong
But your quiet, but your quiet hello made the whole thing small
No room for a court room in a dying call

So I said I loved you, I won't beg again
So I said I loved you, I won't beg again
The red line vanished, your first word got clipped
Black glass gave back my face above the bridge

One percent left of you
One percent left of you
Red warning said go
One percent left of you
Red warning said go
One last sentence before the screen let go
I loved you realest call is my goodbye
One percent left I spent it on goodbye

I thought an ending needed to

Your voice then mine both coming through
But truth won't bargain like a bid
The battery died before my courage did
No answer crossed the river bridge
The car kept moving so I did

One percent left of you
Red warning said go
One last sentence before the screen let go
I loved you realest call is my goodbye
One percent left I spent it on goodbye

Car door shuts
Cold air black foam
Nothing left unsaid