[VERSE 1] One button open, one reply late your favorite form of honesty you let the room assume your hands had nothing planned for me Your thumb beneath my chin — so light a comma dressed as skin I let the sentence lose its shape you called the silence giving in [PRE-CHORUS] You found the pulse beneath my watch pretended not to count I left one sound unfinished you stood a little taller for it [CHORUS 1] Velvet leverage silk voice, hard math you kept one word against my mouth then made me ask it back Velvet leverage close enough to claim you wrote the terms I signed my name [POST-CHORUS] Take a little Need it back Silk voice Hard math [VERSE 2] You learned the exact delay between my name and my reply how long your hand could leave my waist before its absence touched me too You rationed warmth in quarter turns kept every shortage looking clean you thought my body proved your power I watched you check the proof again [PRE-CHORUS] You moved an inch I made it matter You called it instinct I kept the pattern [CHORUS 2] Velvet leverage silk voice, hard math you kept one word against my mouth I watched you need it back Velvet leverage close enough to claim you thought you wrote the terms I let you sign your name [POST-CHORUS] Take a little Need it back Silk voice Hard math [BRIDGE] Say less I’ll lean in Wait longer I’ll shake Leave your hand there one beat too long I’ll give the room one more thing to misread You called my weakness chemistry I let the theory keep its charm Cute — how power loses posture when the body stops applauding [FINAL CHORUS] Velvet leverage silk voice, hard math you taught my body your timing then needed every signal back Velvet leverage look how clean it reads you thought the hunger made me yours— [BREAK] The wanting was honest. The helplessness was edited. You thought the tremor was my weakness. I kept it— because it was yours.
