[Intro] [Instrumental] [Verse 1 — Male] Your leftover heat drapes my nerves Counterfeit calm beneath my ribs The exit blinks: do it, don’t I sit still so my bones don’t tell [Verse 2 — Female] The projector bruises the screen Your half-smile skips and disappears My double waits along the aisle Prism dust climbs both my arms [Instrumental] [Pre-Chorus — Male and Female] Five, four—the copper count Names dissolve before the lights You say stay; I say leave Neither answer fits the seat [Chorus — Both] Devour, consume, the red signs spin Borrowed calm won’t let me in If the room goes cold and true I strike a match and follow you [Instrumental] [Verse 3 — Female] Rain rehearses on stalled cars Your footsteps break in puddled glass A matchbook waits beside the curb Almost brave, but still unopened [Verse 4 — Male] Backstage faces trade their paint The living gossip through their teeth I bite the silence till it hums And lose the shape I came to keep [Instrumental] [Bridge — Alternating] [Male] Warmth isn’t borrowed [Female] It’s bitten [Male] The captcha stalls [Female] The guilt keeps flashing [Both] When the seat chills into truth We shed the calm we carried through [Final Chorus — Both] Devour, consume, the red signs spin No borrowed calm can pull us in When the room goes cold and true We strike a match and follow through [Outro] [Instrumental] Almost brave Almost brave
