Music Without Melody
Ace High Bluff
Broken Dreams · Grief · Regrets
#VERSE
Our Melody is dead
Our harmonies have ceased to flow
The downhome trio down to two
We’re left to grieve the fading glow
#VERSE
She got the crowds yee-hawing
Part songbird, part hell-raiser
Sang melodies so crystal clear
She took our act from good to greater
#PRE-CHORUS
And here we are, just Paige and me
Playing guitar and violin
At the wake for our friend Melody
Expecting her voice to come soaring in
#CHORUS
But it’s music without Melody
That tearful, empty feeling grows
We cling to happy memories
How she rocked the rooms at sold out shows
Years together on the stage
Deep friendship only bandmates feel
Now there’s just the dark reality
Of music without Melody
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Music without Melody
#VERSE
First time—the high school talent show
Paige was nervous, I was shy
But Melody stepped straight out front
Her voice won us first prize that night
#VERSE
And like the goose who leads the “V”
Streaming ’cross the autumn sky
Melody made us who we are
A strong act, sure, and friends for life
#PRE-CHORUS
Her love wrapped ’round each audience
Like grandma’s knit blanket, she was soft and warm
Laughter and kindness, with a touch of sass
How sad our songbird would soon be gone
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Now it’s music without Melody
We play with pained hearts at her wake
Two rose stem thorns without the bloom
Letting her drive was our mistake
The tavern that we played that night
Poured drinks faster than a wishing well
Now “Music without Melody”
Is the news headline and our hell
#BRIDGE
We let her drink
We let her drive
Paige and I were selling t-shirts
When she stumbled past
I pulled her keys from my pocket
Without thinking, handed them to her when she asked
Now I’m saddled with guilt
That I can’t unpack
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#PRE-CHORUS
We laugh at videos of pranks she pulled
We replay live performances on streaming
But the future she saw coming is now dead and gone
Drinking put an end to dreaming
#CHORUS
Now it’s music without Melody
Like a song without a chorus
Can’t replace her in our hearts
Nothing—nothing can restore us
We’ll keep playing for the crowds
That’s how she’d want things to be
And fans will feel the emptiness
Of music without Melody
#OUTRO
Her voice has faded from this hall
But sings inside our memory
We cry the tears of love and loss
For music without Melody
Music without Melody
Music without Melody
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