[SONG META: Genre=neo-soul | BPM=94 | Feel=laid-back swung 4/4 | Key=C# minor | Mood=playful reconciliation, intimate] [INTRO: Amaj9 | G#m7 | C#m9 | B13 | Rhodes pickup, muted guitar] [Female Voice: dry close-mic, teasing] Two seventeen, and we're both still awake [VERSE 1: Amaj9 | G#m7 | C#m9 | B13 | deep bass, clipped drums] Your water glass is balanced on a paperback My charger crosses over to your side We made a courtroom out of one small comment Now pride is taking up the space between the pillows tonight You turn away but leave your ankle near me That tiny contact tells me what you won't We could keep rehearsing who was injured Or pull this duvet back and come back home [PRE-CHORUS: F#m9 | G#m7 | Amaj9 | G#7alt | stacked murmured vowels] I don't need to win if winning makes us strangers Move a little closer, let the room release the anger [CHORUS: C#m9 | Emaj9/B | Amaj9 | G#7sus G#7 | F#m9 | G#m7 | Amaj9 B13 | C#m9 | harmony fan] Come back to the same side of the bed Bring that stubborn heart and lay it by my head We can talk it clean when morning comes Right now I miss the way we fit as one Come back to the same side of the bed I would rather hold you than remember what you said No surrender, no one loses face Just bring your body back into its place [VERSE 2: Amaj9 | G#m7 | C#m9 | B13 | percussion opens] I know the exact pause before your laughter You know which shoulder carries all my strain One careless sentence cannot cancel Every cup of tea and every train you met me in the rain So take the corner that I kept beside me Let your breathing settle next to mine We don't need a perfect explanation Only enough honesty to realign [PRE-CHORUS: F#m9 | G#m7 | Amaj9 | G#7alt | upper response] I don't need to win if winning makes us strangers Move a little closer, let the room release the anger [BRIDGE: Emaj9 | D#7alt | G#m9 | C#13 | F#m9 | A/B | G#7alt | half-time] [Female Voice: low confession, rising run] Tomorrow I'll admit where I was careless You can tell me where the sentence landed wrong But love is also choosing the direction And I am choosing where we both belong [FINAL CHORUS: C#m9 | Emaj9/B | Amaj9 | G#7sus G#7 | F#m9 | G#m7 | Amaj9 B13 | C#m9 | full stacks, belt and whistle release] Come back to the same side of the bed Put your open hand beneath my head We will talk it clean when morning comes Tonight remember how we fit as one Come back, no victor and no debt Only two soft hearts not finished with this yet No surrender, no one loses face Just bring your love back into its place [OUTRO: Amaj9 | G#m7 | C#m9 | clean low C#] [Female Voice: smiling close] Same side… come here
