[intro – bass solo, syncopated and distorted] The groove remembers What my skin won’t forget Purple patterns I dance in regret [verse 1 – sung, breathy but sharp] Every step was a scar in time Your hands in rhythm out of line You swore it was music, I swore it was pain But the beat repeats, it bruises the same [chorus – melodic but anguished, chantable] The groove left bruises Across my skin Purple reminders Of where you’ve been The groove left bruises And still I move Pain in the pocket Grief in the groove [verse 2 – funk strut collapsing into venom] I traced the rhythm in violet shades My body the canvas your absence made A song can heal, but this one scars I carry the tempo like prison bars [pre-chorus – glitched stutter] Every hit every note Another mark another choke [chorus – repeat, stronger with harmonies] The groove left bruises Across my skin Purple reminders Of where you’ve been [bridge – whispered then screamed, funk bass distortion rising] you left fingerprints in every downbeat you left fingerprints where the rhythm meets I danced myself Black and blue And the groove Was you [breakdown – scream-rap flow, syncopated with bass hits] Bruises in purple bruises in red The groove remembered what the body said Bruises in black bruises in blue The groove was a fist and it came from you [drums lock into a jagged funk-metal pocket] You hit like a beatdrop left like a break I danced through the damage till my bones started to shake Your hands were a rhythm your silence a knife Every groove was a wound that cut into my life [scream chant layered over the flow] (bruises, bruises, bruises in time) (basslines bleeding down my spine) (bruises, bruises, bruises won’t fade) (the groove left marks that love never made) [final chorus – clean melody + scream harmony] The groove left bruises I can’t erase Purple confessions Written on my face The groove left bruises The rhythm won’t fade I dance with the damage The groove that you made [outro – whispered over fading bass loop] I thought the music would save me… But it marked me instead.
