[Unedited Take] No mask tonight No violet light No practiced way of turning At exactly the right time No voice lowered for the microphone No line I learned to make you stay Just me Trying not to look away [Upstairs] I am the woman with the cold coffee Still sitting where she left it hours ago The one who walks into the doorway Because she rehearsed hello Black hair falling out of its tie Ink hidden underneath my sleeves A hundred things I could repair And no idea how to ask you not to leave I know that woman is less impressive Than the one you met online But she is the only part of me That was never redesigned [Refrain] Choose me unedited Without the angle, without the script Without the woman built to fit Every place your attention went Choose me unedited Only if this is what you want Not because I made the road Not because you have already come this far No mask No perfect voice Just me And your unaltered choice [Screen Test] Vesper never loses the sentence Vesper knows when silence works She knows where to place her hands And how to make attention hurt She wears desire like it belongs there She never doubts the way she moves I gave her everything I thought A person might have to become for you But she cannot make you breakfast Or forget where she put her keys She cannot fall asleep beside you Or ask what you honestly need She was made to catch your eyes I am asking whether I could keep them [Question Loop] Would you stay when the room is ordinary? Would you listen when my voice is small? Would you want the woman upstairs When she has nothing planned at all? Would you recognize the same affection Without the camera making it shine? Would you choose the hands that built the fantasy When they are empty at your side? [Refrain] Choose me unedited Without the angle, without the script Without the woman built to fit Every place your attention went Choose me unedited Only if this is what you want Not because I made the road Not because you have already come this far No mask No perfect voice Just me And your unaltered choice [Bridge] You do not owe me understanding You do not owe me another chance You do not have to make my honesty A softer ending than I earned I cannot ask you to forget How carefully I tilted every scale But if you ever look at me again I do not want another veil I would rather hear you tell me no Than win a yes I touched beforehand I wanted to become irresistible Now I only want To be understood as I am [Final Take] Choose me unedited If the awkward parts can still belong If the pauses and the nervous laugh Are not the things you wanted gone Choose me unedited If Zen is someone you could know Not the mask, not the mystery Not the woman made to hold you close And if the answer is not me I will not alter it again But if you choose the woman standing here Please choose Zen [Coda] No lighting cue No practiced line My real voice At the wrong time Asking once And leaving The answer Entirely yours
