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Text Message Unsent

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Text Message Unsent was released on May 8, 2026 by Lakeshore Records as a part of the album I Love Boosters (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - EP

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OVERVIEW

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Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Keke Palmer

Performer

Boots Riley

Programming

Joel Robinow

Synthesizer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Alina Kanin

Songwriter

Jesse Strauss

Songwriter

Lauren Palmer

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Boots Riley

Producer

Damion Gallegos

Damion Gallegos

Mixing Engineer

Kourosh Poursalehi

Kourosh Poursalehi

Recording Engineer

Howie Weinberg

Mastering Engineer

Will Borza

Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Tell me, Reggie, how is it you spell it

When you're in love with something so dead you can smell it?

Like two hearts preserved in maple syrup

And the boy that you love is off dying in Europe

Or Asia or something, you forgot to ask

It's been seven long, horrible years since you last

Told him you loved him, but not what that meant

It's too much, so it dies in text message unsent

[Chorus]

You once told me about your happily ever after

Nobody else was in it, but you said it with laughter

"I'd be a writer, you'd play your guitar

We'd both have each other like two summer stars"

But I was alone when I moved to New York

And the place that you dreamed of's not there anymore

And all my words seem to be able do

Is paint all these desperate portraits of you

[Verse 2]

So you lived out your life how you thought you deserved it

And spent all your nights busy feeling deserted

Tell your girlfriend she means something more than she does

The last key to unlock the boy who never was

But you saw him, you swear it, he was there on the corner

Across from the house that now sits like a mourner

Empty of everything it every loved

While torn up drafts of letters rain down from above

[Chorus]

I remember when you told me 'bout your happily ever after

Nobody else was in it, but you said it with laughter

I'd be a writer, you'd play your guitar

We'd both have each other like two summer stars

But I was alone when I moved to New York

And the place that you dreamed of's not there anymore

And all my words seem to be able do

Is paint all these desperate portraits of you

[Verse 3]

And will you be alone when you see him again?

Maybe alone is better than just being friends

Oh, it can't be, there's nothing as cold as this pain

Of a soul too big for one body to contain

It's so daunting a task, this holding out hope

Chasing after the Argo in a little rowboat

There's so much that you want to be able to say

Before Charybdis pulls you away

[Chorus]

Can we still have that ending you told me about?

Before we got older and filled up with doubt

'Cause I was holding back tears that night in your car

Now I'd give everything I have just to hear your guitar

I'd have died to have had you with me in New York

'Cause these upstate stars ain't cutting it anymore

And all the river, the trees, and the streets seem to do

Is reflect back to me a picture of you

[Outro]

So what is the story you want them to tell?

Will you take off the mask though it wore you so well?

Will you go down this heart break town's tragic hero?

With me as your sidekick, the lovesick Pierrot?

Written by: Alina Kanin, Jesse Strauss, Lauren Palmer

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