[Soft Intro] [style: classic rock, soul, atmospheric] Low light on your face in the back of that midnight bar You laughed like the room couldn’t hold you or keep who you are I didn’t know then how your patterns would pull me down I only felt the spark, not the tremor in your sound [Verse 1] [style: classic rock ballad] You spoke of your past like suitcases left on the floor I tried to lift them slowly, afraid they would spill even more Never felt the weight sliding quietly into my chest Never caught the small truths hiding in the words you left [Pre-chorus] I should’ve heard the pressure rising underneath each breath you drew I should’ve sensed the heat you carried burning hotter than I knew [Chorus] Run, don’t walk — that’s what my heartbeat screamed But I get pulled back to the moments sitting in between Run, don’t walk — but I move too slow to go You’re the tug I keep resisting, and I still don’t know [Instrumental Interlude] [Lead guitar — bending, aching phrases floating over soft piano] [Verse 2] [style: blues hard rock] You turned every morning into something I couldn’t ignore Your silence said more than anything you’d spoken before You held me so close I forgot how to stand alone And when I finally felt it, I knew the ground was gone [Pre-chorus] How do I leave when the map is colored with where we tried? How do I breathe when the truth hits sharper than the why? [Chorus] Run, don’t walk — that’s what the signal said But my pulse drifts back to all the things we never said Run, don’t walk — but I stall where I should flee You’re the door I keep unlatching even when I hold the key [Guitar Solo] [String-bending, soaring lines over heavy drums and swelling piano] [Bridge] [style: soulful rock] I’m learning goodbyes don’t settle in just one night They shake through your ribs before they ever meet the light But I’m done staying quiet just to smooth the sparks you throw If it breaks me open, maybe that’s the way I grow [Breakdown — Piano and Voice Only] I whisper to myself, one step, one breath, just go But my heart drags slow behind, scared of what I’ll know [Chorus] Run, don’t walk — I’m trying hard to hear it this time But the marks you left still circle me in older lines Run, don’t walk — I’m cutting loose the ties I’m scared and shaking, but I’m choosing my own side [Guitar Solo — Finale] [Long, emotional, string-bending solo rising into a powerful crescendo] [Powerful Outro] I’m walking, then running, then gone before your echo can talk I’m done being held in place — this time I run, don’t walk [Fade Out and End]
