BLACK STONE [INTRO — spoken / glitch] I don't know how to write love songs. Every time I try, it comes out like a warning. [DROP] [VERSE 1 — spoken rap] Love makes noise. I need the signal. Love kills the focus, so I cut it from the channel. Too much of it stood between the truth and me. Too many чужие eyes telling me who to be. No. I know the mechanism. I know the cost. I know the hunger. First you lose direction. Then your boundaries. Then yourself. And somehow you still call it beautiful. [BUILD] I don't want it. I don't wait. I don't search. I don't wanna fall in love ever again. [HOOK — SHOUTED] BLACK STONE! WHERE MY HEART WAS! LET IT FUCKING STAY THAT WAY! BLACK STONE! IT KNOWS DESPAIR! THAT'S WHY IT DOESN'T BREAK FOR NOTHING! I don't want love! I don't want its laws! I WON'T LET ANYONE MOVE MY BOUNDARIES! [DROP — distorted vocal] My boundaries. My boundaries. My... BOUNDARIES. [VERSE 2 — fast rap] I'm not cold. I'm what came after. Pressure did its work. Fire did its work. Time did its work. The rest I did myself. Red sky behind me. Asphalt and night ahead. I don't count the burned-out crossings. I don't keep books for the dead. I don't go back where I'd have to make myself smaller just so somebody else could feel bigger. [BREAK — half-time] Love makes me weak. [metallic hit] Blinds me. [metallic hit] Kills my direction. [glitch silence] So I don't want it. [HOOK — MASSIVE] BLACK STONE! WHERE MY HEART WAS! LET IT FUCKING STAY THAT WAY! I don't want your “forevers.” I don't want cages dressed up as arms. I won't be a half. I'm not looking for completion. I AM. And that's enough. [BRIDGE — whispered / distorted] Sometimes... under all that black weight... something tries to move. [heartbeat-like distorted 808] No. Don't open that door. Don't turn on the light. Don't wake what I spent so long teaching to sleep. [FINAL BUILD] Because I know how I love. No brakes. No skin. No reason. And after that there's only... [FINAL DROP] BLACK! STONE! WHERE MY! HEART WAS! I DON'T WANNA FALL IN LOVE EVER AGAIN! I WON'T GIVE MY WHOLE WORLD AWAY FOR YOURS! I'm nobody's half! Nobody's rib! Nobody's shadow! WHOLE. MINE. FREE. [glitch cut] [OUTRO — spoken, dry vocal] I don't know how to write love songs. Good. Love wrote me for too long. Now I'm holding the pen.
