Come see the thing life denied. Come touch the impossible. One night only. First comes the promise no one says aloud The old regrets start looking proud People who learned to live without Find one more reason to turn around It offers the years back, offers the face The last word folded in the wrong place The version of someone before they broke The truth with a nicer coat Want moves through them like a secret disease Then calls it a cure when they’re down on their knees The price is what they want The price is what they hide The part they call forgiveness When it opens up inside The price is what they want Not the sign, not the show It gives them what they came for Then it teaches them to owe Come buy back the almost Come take back the gone Come hold the impossible A little too long (What they want) (What they want) Some come for the voice they never answered Some come for proof they were right Some come for love without the leaving Some come for youth without the time It offers a clean past, offers a name A kinder version of the blame A door where a wall has always been A way to lose and still call it winning Want moves through them like a secret disease Then calls it a cure when they’re down on their knees The price is what they want The price is what they hide The part they call forgiveness When it opens up inside The price is what they want Not the sign, not the show It gives them what they came for Then it teaches them to owe Come buy back the almost Come take back the gone Come hold the impossible A little too long (What they want) (What they want) No one has to force it No one has to lie The offer only works When it finds the appetite A kiss without grief A prayer without guilt A name without history A house never built A child never leaving A lover still warm A life with the ending Taken out of the form They call it a blessing when regret gets answered They call it a miracle when the past stands still They call it mercy when the cost comes after They call it choice when they already will They came for the door that the world never gave them They came for the proof that the pain had a point They came for the cure and the cure rearranged them Now the want owns the wound and the wound owns the voice (What they want) (What they want) (The price) (The price) The price is what they want The price is what they hide The part they call forgiveness When it opens up inside The price is what they want Not the sign, not the show It gives them what they came for Then it teaches them to owe The price is what they want Not the dream, not the proof It hands them back the hunger And calls the hunger truth Come buy back the almost Come take back the gone Come hold the impossible A little too long (What they want) (What they want) (The price is what they want) By morning, they’ll swear it was worth it.
