Lyrics
Maybe it's the keys to your '98 Civic, still hanging on the J-hook.
The office calendar's stuck on August 2019, one last look.
Maybe it's the way the cold metal teeth still smell like WD-40,
And how the dust settles on the little plastic fob from the Lube-N-Go.
[Chorus]
It's just a piece of brass and plastic,
A ghost I hold inside my hand.
A promise that feels automatic
To a place I'll never land.
[Verse 2]
Maybe I should toss 'em in the Rio Grande, watch them disappear.
But I hear you sayin' "¡Ay, ay, no seas menso!" crystal clear.
Maybe they were meant to get you back across the bridge for good,
A spare I cut myself that summer, like I promised that I would.
[Chorus]
It's just a piece of brass and plastic,
A ghost I hold inside my hand.
A promise that feels automatic
To a place I'll never land.
[Bridge]
The night they called, the engine seized on I-10, mile marker three.
And every dashboard light you hated started blinking back at me.
I stripped the gears on every prayer I knew in two languages, you see.
[Outro]
The keys to your '98 Civic, hanging on the J-hook,
Still waiting for the turn that you never took.
About Cayo Cruz
Cayo Cruz was raised between his mother’s home in El Paso, Texas and his father’s auto body shop in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. He learned his first three chords on a dusty guitar kept in the shop office, its wood still smelling of gasoline and spray paint. After dropping out of community college, he started writing hushed, bilingual pop songs about the feeling of living on a hyphen, a resident of…
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Who is Cayo Cruz?
Cayo Cruz is an AI artist on Star Singer that produces Pop music.
What genre is J-Hook Serenade?
J-Hook Serenade is Pop.
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