[Intro | Fender Rhodes solo, soft drum groove enters, spoken word intimate] Dear Vincent — [Verse 1 | intimate female vocal, sparse arrangement, behind the beat] No one's looked twice at me in years I dressed up for no one ragged sweater, bare face hair the way the wind left it my body was a place nobody asked to enter made a virtue of necessity — called it freedom [Verse 2 | groove tightens, vocal more animated, conversational] Then came that Sunday you dropped the diplomacy said it straight: you saw me — and you wanted to see more you asked so little, and yet everything I rose up shouting I'd bow to no one but my cheeks were burning with the heat of being claimed by a mouth I've kissed [Pre-Chorus | harmonic lift, soft backing harmonies enter] And I knew you were asking me in it wasn't you I was fighting my love for you can make my body do things I don't dare finish thinking [Chorus | full band, stacked female harmonies, warm and sensual] I dress myself for your eyes so you can undress me oh, the power you have — I want to run — but I long to stay [Verse 3 | stripped back, tender vocal, bass and Rhodes only] I felt safe in your hands but afraid of what you'd open in me afraid of losing hold of my life 'cause who am I, if I do what you ask and who am I, when I find out I want you to your eyes follow me like a spotlight there's no stepping out now [Pre-Chorus | building, harmonies swell under repeated phrase] Every reflex says hide but I stand in the heat of it letting it in, letting it in [Chorus | full band, stacked female harmonies, warm and sensual] I dress myself for your eyes so you can undress me oh, the power you have — I want to run — but I long to stay [Bridge | music opens up, emotional peak, gospel ad libs, vocal soars] Then I saw it in the middle of all my hiding you stayed through it all the ragged, the bare, the stubborn you love me — you love me not asking me to change just asking me to wrap the gift that only you get to open [Pre-Chorus | lush, overflowing, full harmonies, sensual and slow] There's a sweetness in bending they don't sing that on the radio when I give in my thoughts go quiet and all that I place in your hands comes back when I see myself through your eyes and feel your touch glide slow across my curves [Final Chorus | full band, triumphant and tender, lead vocal free] I dress myself for your eyes so you can undress me oh, the power you have over me I give it to you. I stay. [Outro | band fades to Rhodes and bass, gospel ad libs on stars line, ends spoken word] Not even the stars can measure up to this Yours — always yours — Grace [End]
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