[Intro] (Soft vinyl crackle… warm Rhodes piano… airy vocal layers… deep bass fades in…) Ooooh… yeah… Mmmmmm… Can you… Can you handle me…? ⸻ [Verse 1] Love me for me… (pause) Not who you want me to be… (pause) Every scar tells a storyyyyyyyyyyy……………… (pause) Every tear wrote gloryyyyyyyyyyy……………….. (pause) Some days I shine… (pause) Some days I heal… (pause) Nothing about my heart… Is fake or unreallllllllllllllllll………………… (Yeah…) ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] When the lights get low… Will you stay…? (Stay with me…) When my smile don’t show… Will you pray…? (Pray for me…) Will you hold… What life unfolds…? ⸻ [Chorus] (Powerful lift with stacked harmonies) Can you handle me…? Can you love every piece I see…? (Ohhh…) My imperfections… And all my flaws… (All my flaws…) My good days… And my hard days… (Stay… stay…) Rich or poor… You’ll want no more… Sickness and health… Still choose myself… With you beside me… Can you… Can you handle me…? ⸻ [Verse 2] Sometimes I laugh… (pause) Sometimes I break… (pause) Still got faaaaithhhhh……..………… I never faaaaaakeeeee…………………. (Never…) My ups… My downs… (pause) Still wear my crown… (My crown…) Even when… It slips around… (Ohhh…) ⸻ [Bridge] (Atmospheric breakdown) I’m not perfect… I’m just reallllllllllllll……………….. (So real…) Every wound… Eventually heals… (Heals…) If forever… Is what you mean… Love every version… You’ve never seeeeennnnnnn…………………..… ⸻ [Final Chorus] (Big emotional climax with choir harmonies, airy chants, ad-libs) Can you handle me…? (Can you…? Can you…?) When my world gets heavy… Will you still believe…? Love me… For me… Every flaw… Every dream… Rich or poor… Open doors… Sickness and health… Nothing else… Through every season… Every storm… Promise my heart… Will still be home… Can you handle me…? (Can you handle… me…?) ⸻ [Outro] (Fade with airy harmonies, soft vocal runs, vinyl crackle returning) Ooooooh… Handle me… Love me… Completely… No pretending… No disguises… Just… Love… Me… (Can you handle me…?) 🎶
