[INTRO — Dark 1920s Jazz Cabaret] [solo upright piano, soft vinyl crackle, distant muted trumpet] The lipstick stayed after you left the room [low strings enter, brushed cymbal swell] Red on the glass black in the wound [Female Lead, whispered through vintage mic] I did not win I survived. [VERSE 1 — Female Lead, slow cabaret lament] You kissed the glass and called it closure Left your ghost beside the door I wore silence like a veil While my heart bled on the floor You were gold, I was glitter Falling through your careless hands Now I shine in broken colors Like a crown in funeral sand [PRE-CHORUS — Female Lead, piano grows, upright bass enters] Used to need your light Like a prayer in the cold Now I walk through night With my sorrow dressed in gold [CHORUS — Tragic Speakeasy Anthem, brushed drums and muted horns] Lipstick heart, you left your mark I carry red across the dark Crimson mouth, cathedral low I became what grief let grow Lipstick heart, I wear the scar Turned your goodbye into art Not a smile, not a show I rose from what you buried low [POST-CHORUS — Dark Cabaret Chant, male backing vocals hum low] Lipstick Lipstick Red like the wound black like the room Lipstick Lipstick I still bloom I still bloom [VERSE 2 — Male Featured Vocalist, soft and painful, keep original verse intact] Three AM, I’m still replaying All the things you didn’t say, babe But tomorrow I’m okay, yeah Love myself in every way, yeah [PRE-CHORUS — Female Lead, strings swell, trumpet answers] Used to need your touch Like mercy on my skin Then the silence opened up And dragged the truth back in [CHORUS — Female Lead with male shadows, bigger cabaret band] Lipstick heart, you left your mark I carry red across the dark Crimson mouth, cathedral low I became what grief let grow Lipstick heart, I wear the scar Turned your goodbye into art Not a smile, not a show I rose from what you buried low [BUILD — Tragic Cabaret Rise, piano strikes harder, strings tremble] I was crying on the floor With your name inside my chest I was begging at the door For a love already dead Let the lights go black Let the violins tear apart Let the whole room kneel To this lipstick heart— [CLIMAX — Big 1920s Cabaret Release, horns swell, drums crash, no EDM drop] Lipstick Lipstick [operatic jazz vocalise] Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah Red across the dark Lipstick Lipstick This is my lipstick heart [BRIDGE — Classical Jazz Breakdown, piano and cello only] Late night, I learned the cost Of calling ruin divine Some love looks like heaven Then leaves you buried alive [Male Vocalist, soft] I still hear it I still feel it [Female Lead, rising] But I am not the girl Who died inside your goodbye [FINAL CHORUS — Full Tragic Victory, full strings and brass] Lipstick heart, you broke the spark But I still rose inside the dark Lipstick heart, now can’t you see? You buried pain and it became me Lipstick heart, I cracked, I burned Lost the love and kept the lesson learned Some things bleed before they glow I rose from what you buried low [FINAL REFRAIN — Dark Victorious Cabaret, male backing vocals low] Lipstick Lipstick Red like the wound black like the room Lipstick Lipstick I don’t smile I survive Lipstick Lipstick I don’t need your light I own the night [OUTRO — Resounding Classical Speakeasy Fade] [electronics removed; piano, strings, and muted trumpet remain] Meant to rise Even low Even alone I still glow I still glow [whispered] In lipstick.
