[Intro] (whispered) (sssnip) [Verse 1] (male, softly) Both nitrile layers parted like a molt of dead skin Your raw split knuckles pressed the wound right in Copper flooding up the back of my tongue Burnt sugar underneath it, and it was done [Verse 2] (female, softly) I was only falling, that's the honest part Left hand ruined, meat where the skin tore apart Physics doesn't care what a girl meant to do Two streams collided and it bound me into you [Chorus] (both, harmony) Two seconds Skin to skin, meat to meat Two seconds A stranger's heartbeat in my chest Everything I built to keep me clean Gone in two seconds Gone in two seconds [Verse 3] (male) I felt a knife I never held go slick with gore I felt her fear come flooding under my own floor A second pulse behind my sternum, faster, wrong Bond forming, a hundred percent, and it was strong [Bridge] (female, building) I ran three blocks and spat it on my jeans Wiped it on the denim but the blood was already in Carried by my bloodstream toward a heart that isn't free His pulse fluttering already right behind my ribs in me [Chorus] (both, harmony, quieter) Two seconds Skin to skin, meat to meat Two seconds A stranger's heartbeat in my chest Everything I built to keep me clean Gone in two seconds Gone in two seconds [Outro] (spoken, overlapping) (male) The parasite is building the bridge. (female) And there was nothing I could do to stop it.
