**[Intro]** I stopped mistaking hunger for desire, stopped calling every spark a sign. When you become a home within yourself, cheap affection loses its shine. I don't fight temptation anymore. There’s nothing there I need to prove. When you've met yourself completely, half a love can barely move you. **[Verse 1]** I used to think intensity meant depth, being wanted meant being known. Gave meaning to every connection just because I hated being alone. But pain has ways of turning inward, showing what you left behind. When the outside stops consoling you, you finally recognize your mind. Now attention doesn't hypnotize me, pretty words don't buy my trust. If the connection leaves me smaller, then connection isn't enough. I would rather know myself completely than disappear inside a touch. **[Pre-Chorus]** The clearer that I become, the less the shadows pull. The closer I get to what is true, the less I need to feel full. You can walk beside my becoming, but you cannot become me. **[Chorus]** That's the inner marriage, nothing missing, nothing chased. I can love without surrendering the center of my space. Give me calm instead of craving, give me truth instead of rush. If your presence makes me weaker, then your presence costs too much. I want love that leaves me stronger when I'm standing on my own. Real connection doesn't capture, it reminds you you're already whole. **[Verse 2]** Some people see the open wound and arrive pretending they're the cure. Two unfinished people making promises neither one can long endure. One needs worship, one needs saving, one needs someone to believe. Call dependency devotion while they're terrified to leave. That's how old emotions haunt us, wearing unfamiliar names, making strangers into symbols, making trauma look like fate. But consciousness keeps clearing all the fog around the eyes. You start seeing what is happening instead of what you fantasize. Suddenly the old seductions lose the gravity they had. You're not stronger for resisting, you just don't want what made you sad. **[Chorus]** That's the inner marriage, nothing missing, nothing chased. I can love without surrendering the center of my space. Give me calm instead of craving, give me truth instead of rush. If your presence makes me weaker, then your presence costs too much. I want love that leaves me stronger when I'm standing on my own. Real connection doesn't capture, it reminds you you're already whole. **[Bridge]** Maybe pain was never sacred. Maybe pain was simply pain. But I learned to turn toward myself instead of running once again. Every friendship, every lover, every workplace, every loss should return you to yourself with more wisdom than it cost. More grounded. More discerning. More peaceful and more clear. Less controlled by expectation, less persuaded by your fear. I don't want emotional drunkenness mistaken for something profound. Give me something I can carry when nobody else is around. **[Final Verse]** Now I notice who inspires me without needing me dependent. Who can stand beside my freedom without trying to possess it. Who can challenge without breaking, who can love without control, who can leave me more collected than the moment they showed. That's the measure of relation: not the promises we make, but the person I'm becoming from the energy we exchange. Am I calmer? Am I clearer? Am I wiser than before? Do I need another dosage, or do I finally need no more? I still want to touch and trust. I still want connection too. But I want a bond created by choice, not emptiness disguised as truth. **[Final Chorus]** That's the inner marriage, I came home beneath my skin. Now I meet you as a person, not an answer from within. Give me peace without sedation, give me closeness without chains. Give me something that grows wiser after pleasure and after pain. I don't want a cheaper version of the intimacy I've found. If we meet, then let us meet with both our feet upon the ground. **[Outro]** No battle with temptation. No performance to resist. Some things simply stop attracting when you know what wholeness is.
