[verse 1 | vocals: intimate, breath-led, low register, tender but controlled | instrumental: sub bass, muted electric guitar, slow tight drums, sparse dark textures | energy: low, hypnotic] you come in close like nothing changed like the room still fits us right fingertips soft at the edge of my waist mouth full of that careful light you know exactly where i bend exactly when i let it through old poison sleeping in the silk old habit wearing your perfume [pause 0.8s] we never needed raised hands we do the damage sweet the kind that keeps a steady face and lands beneath the skin [pre-chorus | vocals: close-mic, restrained, smoother attack | instrumental: bass swells, guitar tension rising, kick deepens | energy: building, suspended] come a little closer now slow enough to look like trust let it settle nice and deep where it always does with us when you kiss me i can hear something in the dark give way [chorus | vocals: sensual, steady, near-whisper layers, hook-forward phrasing | instrumental: heavy low-end, slow hard drums, wide muted guitar bloom | energy: heavy, addictive] kiss like a bruise soft in the mouth sweet in the dark while it all goes down hold me like that like nothing's wrong nice enough to keep until the keeping's gone kiss like a bruise leave it where it lives i can feel the fall in the way you give [verse 2 | vocals: breath-close, faint smile in the voice, controlled | instrumental: tom pulse, pressing bass, soft guitar scrape | energy: low, invasive] you pull the ribbon from my throat like untying something blessed say my name the gentlest way and make a ruin sound like rest there was never any cure only better ways to hide the little hunger in the touch the little teeth behind the smile [pause 0.9s] we know how to make it glow we know how to make it stay dress the cut in tender words watch it open anyway [pre-chorus | vocals: breathier, colder, more present | instrumental: tighter bass pressure, restrained cymbal wash, guitar edges sharper | energy: stronger pull] lean into me nice and slow like the floor is still beneath like this ache was always ours like it only wants to breathe when you kiss me i can taste how much of this wants to win [chorus | vocals: fuller, sensual, low harmony support | instrumental: fuller drums, dominant bass, wider guitar bloom | energy: dense, inescapable] kiss like a bruise soft in the mouth sweet in the dark while it all goes down hold me like that like nothing's wrong nice enough to keep until the keeping's gone kiss like a bruise leave it where it lives i can feel the fall in the way you give [instrumental] [final chorus | vocals: fuller, dark sensual power, stacked whispers on the last lines | instrumental: heaviest drums so far, saturated bass, slow wide electric guitar | energy: high, crushing but controlled] kiss like a bruise soft in the mouth sweet in the dark while it all goes down hold me like that like nothing's wrong nice enough to keep until the keeping's gone kiss like a bruise deep in the ribs you pull me under and i let it in kiss like a bruise no one can prove which one of us was teaching who
