[Verse 1 ] You sit across me like a folded shadow wearing my future like an old coat smiling like you already know my ending but never saying it out loud I pour my thoughts into a glass of silence watch them sink like heavy coins you stir the air but never touch the table like you’re not allowed to choose [Pre-Chorus] Don’t tease me with forever in your eyes if you’re only passing through my time don’t dress the truth in velvet light just say it clean, don’t make it rhyme [Chorus] Don’t tease me set me free If I’m just a dream you’re passing through don’t let me wake up still holding you Don’t tease me set me free I can’t afford forever’s price just borrowed hours and borrowed light [Verse 2] You lean back like a question without answer a cigarette ghost in a hotel mirror you say life is just a rehearsal and I forgot my lines again The TV hums like a tired confession whisky tracing circles in my name and every pill is just a small translation of trying not to feel the flame [Pre-Chorus] Don’t tease me with a life you won’t commit to don’t act like staying isn’t real I built a home inside your hesitation now I don’t know what I feel [Chorus] Don’t tease me set me free If I’m just a dream you’re passing through don’t let me wake up still holding you Don’t tease me set me free I can’t afford forever’s price just borrowed hours and borrowed light [Bridge] And you— you sit like the end of a sentence unfinished but already known You say: “Everything you love is just practice for letting go” I ask if there’s mercy in the timing you don’t answer you just become the silence [Final Chorus] Don’t tease me set me free If this is only memory in disguise don’t make it feel like paradise Don’t tease me set me free If I can’t stay, don’t make me believe I was ever meant to breathe here endlessly [Outro] Don’t tease me… set me free… or stay… but don’t pretend.
