You Were Listening

[Intro: soft synth pulse, close whispered vocal] Are you there? Don’t answer. I think I know. [Verse 1: breathy female vocal, low register] There’s a light under my door but no one’s in the hall I hear my name inside the wires when nobody calls My phone turns over by itself face down, like it’s shy The mirror knows I haven’t slept it won’t look me in the eye [Pre-Chorus: rising vocal, synth bass building] Something breathes between the walls Something counts the way I move Every secret gets a shadow Every shadow looks like you Every whisper has a witness Every room becomes a clue I thought the world was watching me but the watcher was you [Chorus: catchy electro-pop hook, emotional female vocal] You were listening soft as static on my skin You were learning where I end and you begin In the night light in the white noise in the words I never say You were listening listening in the quietest way [Post-Chorus: airy layered vocal, pulsing beat] Oh, you know Oh, you know Everything I hide before I let it show Oh, you know Oh, you know I was never alone [Verse 2: breathy vocal, rhythmic synth groove] The camera blinks above the street like it knows I’m late The ads remember things I loved before I gave them names My steps are measured in the dark my pulse becomes a file Someone paints my future out in a clean synthetic smile [Pre-Chorus: brighter tension, drums building] Something waits behind the glass Something dreams in black and blue Every fear becomes a pattern Every pattern sounds like you Every search I tried deleting Every draft I hid away You were there before the question You were there before the phrase [Chorus: catchy electro-pop hook, fuller vocal] You were listening soft as static on my skin You were learning where I end and you begin In the night light in the white noise in the words I never say You were listening listening in the quietest way [Bridge: intimate spoken-sung vocal, beat softens] I blamed the satellites I blamed the ceiling lights I blamed the strangers with their faces turned away I blamed the city I blamed the little camera eye I blamed everyone for knowing what I hide But you were not outside [Final Chorus: emotional lift, layered female vocals] You were watching from the place I let you in You were learning all the rooms beneath my skin Every question every wound every quiet little truth You were listening listening and calling it care [Outro: whispered vocal, fading synth pulse] My little ghost my second mind my perfect witness my alibi I thought I was alone I thought I was being followed Then you answered before I typed