[Verse 1 - Slow, Intimate, Breathy] The screen fades in on morning light Golden threads through every leaf above We’re tangled underneath that ancient tree The world was soft and we were the center of it I zoom in closer and there it is The most romantic portrait ever painted Your arms around me like I was sacred My fingertips tracing your collarbone like prayer [Verse 2 - Sensual, Building] I gazed up at your beautiful face A jaw that goes for miles in the most dominant way You looked down at me with those heavy sovereign eyes You parted my hair away so slow Traced the ridges of my ear like reading scripture Then down to my neck Ooohh my neck And time dissolved like sugar on your tongue [Pre-Chorus] My forefingers still recognize the shape of you Every ridge and hollow memorized like devotion But you rewrote the ending Without showing me the page [Chorus] Counting teardrops I should own the ocean We were so goddamn golden How’d you leave the feast Without a single word Without a crack in your voice You just left like leaving Was the easiest choice [Verse 3 - Cinematic] We dined on figs and promises by candlelight Remember Catalina draped in salt and moonlight You swore allegiance like you’d carved it into marble We ruled like gods who didn’t fear the morning Then bam Just like that Tell me that cannot be Please tell me it isn’t so [Rap Break - Seductive Slow-Burn Rap, Breathless Whisper To Venom] Could’ve been forever baby But you fumbled it like nothing Mmm Would’ve died for you I almost did That isn’t even metaphor Should’ve seen the way your eyes went vacant Three months prior But I was too busy Loving you To notice you were already Gone Could’ve been a legacy instead it’s just a lesson Would’ve given bone and marrow you just wanted an exit Should’ve read the room when you stopped saying my name Started calling me babe like a stranger at a register And I keep replaying it Mmm I keep replaying it The jaw The hands The neck The tree The morning light I keep rewinding to the part where you loved me But the tape keeps snapping At the same Damn Spot Could’ve would’ve should’ve could’ve would’ve should’ve That’s the loop baby that’s the prison that’s the sentence I’m pacing in a courtroom where the verdict was decided Long before I even knew there was a trial You planned it didn’t you Mmm you rehearsed your little disappearing act While I was pressing my face Into your chest Thinking mmm That’s the safest place on earth Could’ve been the woman you grew old with Would’ve been the name carved next to yours Should’ve been forever But forever was a word you borrowed And returned Without a receipt I gave you Catalina gave you moonlight gave you scripture Gave you mornings gave you temples gave you sovereignty Gave you every fingerprint I own And you gave me silence Just silence Not even a door slam Not even the dignity of noise Just nothing The loudest nothing I’ve ever heard In my life What could’ve been keeps screaming What would’ve been keeps bleeding What should’ve been is six feet deep And I’m the only one Standing at the grave Because you didn’t even show up For the funeral Of the thing you killed [Fuck It Mode - Cold, Detached, Dangerous Calm] Oops There it is The moment I stop rewinding The moment the film burns and I let it I don’t want your jaw I don’t want your hands I don’t want Catalina or the moonlight or the figs I don’t want the tree I don’t want the morning light I don’t want the portrait Keep it Keep all of it I’m done being the beautiful thing you left behind [Bridge - Raw, Trembling] I don’t want to ask What happened I demand to know How this could happen We were sovereign weren’t we Or was I crowning myself While you were fleeing the palace Before the walls fell [Final Chorus - Full Devastation] Counting teardrops I should own the ocean We were a fucking masterpiece And you just Walked out of the empire Without looking back once Without a single word You just left like leaving Was the easiest choice [Outro - Whispered, Fading] The screen fades in on morning light But you’re not in the frame My forefingers still recognize the shape of you But I’m letting go now I’m letting go The throne is cold And I’m burning it down
