[Spoken Intro – low, almost whispered] I watch you like a sinner watches a stained-glass window From the outside Hands in his pockets Bleeding, but too proud to knock. You smile like the world never broke you. And I... I can’t even hold a thing without thinking how easy it is to crush it. (Verse 1 – spoken/gravelly vocal) I like you. Not in a “roses and dinner” way More like... I see you, and it makes me want to break something softer than me Because you don’t belong in my world. You don’t know what it’s like to love someone with gloves on Because everything you touch turns to trauma. I stand back. That’s how I show care— By not letting you drown in the mess that raised me. (Chorus – melodic growl/sung with rage) Don’t come closer You’ll see the rot beneath the skin Don’t ask questions You won’t like where I’ve been I want you But I won’t touch you Love me and I’ll ruin you So stay just out of reach Or you’ll bleed when I do (Verse 2 – spoken/snarled) You call it distance I call it mercy You call it silence I call it survival I’m not built for soft things I bury them before they bury me I remember the first time I felt peace It scared the hell out of me Like it was some trap Like if I closed my eyes too long Someone would be standing over me With my own heart in their hand (Chorus – heavier vocal layering, tension builds) Don’t come closer You don’t want the truth Don’t try to fix me I’ll teach you how to lose I want you But I’m wired for war So I burn from the inside While you knock on a locked door (Bridge – half-whisper, half-scream) You say you’re not afraid of me But you should be Not for what I’d do to you But what I’d make you feel How I’d turn love into silence And silence into scars (Final Chorus – crushing, emotional, raw) Don’t come closer This is the cost of care Don’t try to save me You’ll find nothing there I want you But I vanish in the light So I love you from the shadows And disappear each night [Outro – spoken, fading out] It’s not that I don’t feel it. It’s that I feel it too much. And people like me We don’t know how to hold things Without breaking them first.
