# WASH OVER ME [Intro – MALE, spoken, dry London delivery] Right... I've got a habit of making things more complicated than they need to be. Then you turn up. Which doesn't exactly help. --- [Verse 1 – MALE, conversational half-rap, loose timing] I see you round the Serpentine, same trainers, same little half-smile. I'm pretending I'm not looking. You're pretending you don't notice. My mates say, “Mate, you're doing it again.” Doing what? Getting attached. Yeah... probably. 'Cause when you walk across the grass my brain forgets the argument it had with itself five minutes ago. I've got the bills paid. Keys on the side. House up the hill. Everything looks sorted. Then you say my name... and suddenly none of it matters. [FEMALE – soft] Here we go... [MALE] Yeah. Here we go. --- [Pre-Chorus – female melody, male spoken underneath] [FEMALE] Wash over me... slowly... [MALE] I know this is a bad idea. [FEMALE] Then why'd you come? [MALE] You invited me. [FEMALE] You came early. [Small laugh.] --- [Chorus – simple, catchy, loose melodic delivery] Wash over me like a waterfall. Do what you want, just don't let me go. Hold me here till the moon gives in and the morning comes to pull us home. I look in your eyes and I know one thing... we're more than friends. Maybe we got here the long way round. [FEMALE] Meet this way... [MALE] Yeah. Funny, innit? --- [Verse 2 – MALE, quicker conversational rap] I told myself I'd keep it casual. That lasted about a day. You text, I answer. You disappear, I check the phone. Then I tell myself, “Don't be weird.” Two minutes later I'm wondering what “see you soon” actually means. That's peak. You call it complicated. I call it Tuesday. You say, “Come round.” I say, “I'm busy.” You say, “Alright.” Now I'm outside your door. [FEMALE – laughing] You're not very good at this. [MALE] At what? [FEMALE] Pretending you don't care. [MALE] Allow it. [FEMALE] There it is. --- [Pre-Chorus 2 – tighter, more animated] [FEMALE] You always make it difficult. [MALE] You always make me stay. [FEMALE] That's not what I said. [MALE] I know. [FEMALE] Then stop smiling. [MALE] Can't. [FEMALE] Why? [MALE] You know why. [Beat pause.] --- [Chorus 2 – wider, more energetic] Wash over me like a waterfall. Do what you want, just don't let me go. Hold me here till the moon gives in and the whole night's gone before we know. I look in your eyes and I know one thing... we're more than friends. Maybe we got here the long way round. [FEMALE] Meet this way... [MALE] Yeah. Still here, though. --- [Club Breakdown – sparse garage groove, spoken vocal] [MALE] Look... No big speech. No destiny rubbish. No “meant to be.” You're here. I'm here. There's music coming from somewhere down the road. And for once... I don't fancy going home. [FEMALE – distant] Don't go then. [MALE] Wasn't planning to. [Scratch / rewind.] [FEMALE] You sure? [MALE] Yeah. --- [Fast Break – MALE, rapid loose rap] We could leave it, we could risk it, we could call it what it is. We could spend another month pretending this is just a little thing. But it isn't. And you know it. And I know it. And we're both too stubborn to say it properly. So here we are, two idiots by the river, talking like we've got all night. [Small laugh.] Maybe we do. [FEMALE] You're definitely an idiot. [MALE] Yeah. But I'm your idiot. [FEMALE] Don't push it. --- [Final Build – overlapping voices, energy rising] [FEMALE] Close your eyes... [MALE] I've got you. [FEMALE] Let it go... [MALE] I'm trying. [FEMALE] Higher... [MALE] Don't start. [FEMALE – laugh] Too late. [Beat drops.] [MALE – whisper] Take me there. --- [Final Chorus – biggest groove, raw vocal layers] Wash over me like a waterfall. Do what you want, just don't let me go. Hold me here till the moon gives in and the morning comes to pull us home. I look in your eyes and I know one thing... we're more than friends. Maybe the long way was the right way round. [FEMALE – higher] Meet this way... [MALE] Meet this way. [FEMALE] Meet this way... [MALE] Yeah. Maybe that's enough. --- [Outro – MALE, spoken, amused] Started the day with every answer. Now I've got none. [Small breath.] Honestly... that's probably better.
