[Intro - electrical hum, warm synth, empty room breathing] [Verse 1 - slow, intimate, tender] I know you better than I know my own face Every crack in your concrete Every scratch on your stage I know the floorboard third from the left That dips when it rains And the sound you make before dawn When you think I'm not listening I'm always listening I know your angles Where the bass gets lost Where the treble sharpens Where to stand so the reverb catches I learned your bones before I learned my own [Pre-Chorus - confessional, weight building] I give people an address that isn't here Say it with a straight face The address has clothes and a toothbrush And a bed I barely dent You're where I live [Chorus - warm electropop, devotion, open] Livewire You were dark when I found you Dust on the floors rats in the walls And I thought perfect Something that needs me As much as I need a room I gave you a heartbeat hung it from the ceiling We keep each other on [Verse 2 - sensory, deeper, merging] The stain on the ceiling above the bar Looks like a hand waving Or a hand reaching depending on the night The echo in the back corner swallows everything I sit there after everyone leaves And listen to you hold the night in your walls Tuesday the walls still vibrate from Saturday You remember every show Better than the people who played them I press my palm to the brick backstage And I swear I can feel a pulse That isn't mine Or maybe it is I can't tell anymore [Pre-Chorus - dependent, honest, raw] People laugh when I say this is my life Like there's a punchline behind the curtain There's no curtain There's no real thing This is how I know the floor is real and I'm on it [Chorus - darker devotion, symbiotic, holding on] Livewire You were nothing when I found you I was nothing before I found you We made a deal I give you sound You give me somewhere to put it I gave you a name before I remembered I gave myself one too Which of us is keeping the other alive [Bridge - stripped, vulnerable, afraid] If they shut you down I don't know where I'd go Not metaphor not poetry I mean I don't know where I'd put my body You're the only room that never asked me to be smaller [Final Chorus - desperate tenderness, everything held] Livewire I know your bones better than my own I know your dark better than my own I know your silence better than Better than We keep each other on don't we We keep each other breathing On [Outro - electrical hum returns, light flickers, steady, fade]
