Personalized song for Vera — for their birthday

The lyrics

[Verse 1]
Vera, thirty years and I still hear
The click of our headphones, the bus every morning
Pressed side by side, sharing one ear
The world waking up, our own secret warning
Your laugh at dawn, my half-open eyes
You’d nudge me for the chorus, every single time
School bags at our feet, cassette tangled in red
Birthday girl, I still remember that old rhyme

[Chorus]
For Vera, the girl with glitter-labeled tapes
Taped songs off the radio, dreaming wide awake
Every morning, one pair of headphones, one escape
This time, the song is yours to take

[Verse 2]
You’d wait for the DJ, finger on record
Ready for the moment, never missing your cue
Static and silence, but you never got bored
You’d rewind for the part you knew
Every cassette, your glitter pen marked the side
Titles crooked, catching the light
You handed me side B, always let me decide
But tonight, Vera, it’s your birthday right

[Chorus]
For Vera, the girl with glitter-labeled tapes
Taped songs off the radio, dreaming wide awake
Every morning, one pair of headphones, one escape
This time, the song is yours to take

[Bridge]
Now we’re grown, but I hear it still
The muffled beat through plastic, the school bus hill
Vera, thirty feels just like the start
You get the cassette, you get the part
No more waiting for the radio to play
No more splitting the song halfway
This tape is yours, your name in glitter pen
Press play, Vera, again and again

[Final Chorus]
For Vera, the girl with glitter-labeled tapes
Taped songs off the radio, dreaming wide awake
Every morning, one pair of headphones, one escape
This time, the song is yours to take

[Spoken Outro]
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