Fifty shades of Christian Grey

[Intro] I don’t make love. I fuck. Hard. That’s how I keep the ache in its place. [Verse 1] suit pressed sharp, tie pulled tight, boardroom light cuts the night. forty-two shades of careful control, paper and protocol holding the whole. contacts closed. heart on ice. read the room, measure twice. I keep my distance like it’s law, until one glance finds the flaw. [Pre-Chorus] you say my name and the armor replies. I build my walls to keep out the eyes. red room keys, contracts, rules, all my clean lines hiding the bruise. (back off...) [Chorus] Grey. It’s not all black and white. Grey — it’s the space where I survive. Grey. You pull me past the lines. “Laters, baby” when the night unwinds. Grey — the only place I’m mine. [Verse 2] control is a habit, discipline, skin-deep. every locked door was a promise I keep. the mirror knows what the mouth won’t say: need can be polished and still betray. you don’t look away when the silence bites. you meet the rules with a stranger kind of light. and I hate how it lives under all I design — that pulse in the wires, that shift in my mind. [Bridge] I am not innocent. I am not free. I am the damage beneath polished degrees. cold precision, then the fault line cracks — you touch the edge and I never look back. not saved. not clean. just honest enough to want what I can’t name and call it enough. [Break] Laters, baby. [Final Chorus] Grey. It’s not all black and white. Grey — it’s the space where I survive. Grey. You pull me past the lines. “Laters, baby” when the night unwinds. Grey — the only place I’m mine. [Outro] forty-two shades and counting.