**(masculine and feminine voices where indicated, duet is a mixing of both voices)** [Verse 1: male vocals] You arrived like a letter I forgot I’d written— Ink still wet from a dream I'd outgrown. You kissed like the rain on a stagecoach window, And stayed like a shadow that learned to moan. [Verse 2: female vocals] He was always near, like static in satin— Said he’d carry my grief like a goldfish bowl. He’d write me songs with his lunch money breath, Then stare when I bled, like I’d wounded his soul. [Chorus: duet] [male vocals: I thought she was carved from a hymn and a bruise.] [female vocals: I thought he was furniture—polished, but used.] [male vocals: I offered my coat like a vow made of thread...] [female vocals: I wore it to spite him, then left it for dead.] [duet vocals] And we called it a moment. Though it wasn’t quite that. [Verse 3: male vocals] I saved the cork from that bottle she hated, Labeled it “First Time She Laughed With Her Teeth.” She touched my chest once and I wrote a novella— All metaphors, no relief. [Verse 4: female vocals] He stared at my shoes like they whispered confessions, Drew hearts on receipts I threw in the bin. I let him hold pain like a part-time religion— He never asked if I let him win. [Bridge: Spoken Overlap] [female vocals] You were always the raincoat I borrowed, [male vocals] You were the garden I planted too deep. [female vocals] I fed you my boredom in teaspoons of sweetness, [male vocals] And I thanked you for secrets I didn’t get to keep. [Final Chorus] [male vocals] I saw a promise in her hairline, [female vocals] I saw a tool in his eyes. [male vocals] I wrote my love in quiet favors, [female vocals] He kept mistaking leashes for ties. [duet vocals] And we called it devotion. But it wasn't quite that. No, it wasn’t quite that. [Outro: male vocals][fading] She never said no. She never said yes. She just lingered like perfume On a collar I pressed. (I'm not obsessed)
