You call me late… Mmm… Like I’m the only one… Only one… Then morning comes and I become no one. [Verse 1 ] You leave your jacket at my place, but never leave a name for us. You kiss me like you’ve made your choice, then laugh when I ask too much. Too much… I know the shape of your goodbye before you even turn away. Still every time you touch my hand, I let you stay. [Pre-Chorus] Are we something? Something… Are we nothing? Tell me… Don’t ask. You pull me close enough to hope, then leave me just enough to break. How much of me do you need to take? [Chorus] You want me when you’re lonely, lose me when you’re fine. When you’re fine… Hold me like I’m yours, then tell me you were never mine. I should go, I should know, I should leave you where you are… But you say my name… My name… And I come apart. Am I your almost? Your maybe? Your beautiful mistake? Tell me what I am before there’s nothing left to break. [Verse 2 ] You know exactly when to smile, exactly when to disappear. You give me heaven for a night, then make me pay for having been there. Why do I stay? My friends don’t ask about you now. They know I’ll only change the truth. I say that I can take or leave you… Leave her… Then I run back to you. [Pre-Chorus 2] [Tenor] Say you want me. [Baritone] Or release me. [High Tenor] Please… [Bass] Let go. [Lead] Don’t give me half a heart tonight just to take it back tomorrow. [All | Major to Minor shift] I can survive the truth. I can’t survive the hope. [Chorus | Bigger Harmony, Lead Ad-Libs] [Lead] You want me when you’re lonely, lose me when you’re fine. [Three Voices | rhythmic harmony] When you’re lonely… When you’re lonely… [Lead] Hold me like I’m yours, then swear you were never mine. [All] I should go, I should know, I should leave you where you are… [High Tenor] Go… [Bass] Stay… [Lead] God, I hate how one soft word can pull me back this far. [All | Close Harmony] Am I your almost? Your maybe? The one you never choose? [Lead over sustained harmony] If loving you means losing me… [All | sudden silence] Why do I still choose you? [Bridge | Mostly A Cappella, Four Voices Circling] [Bass] Walk away. [Baritone] I tried. [Tenor] Let her go. [Lead] I tried. [High Tenor] She’ll call again… [Lead] I know. [Bass + Baritone] Don’t answer. [Lead, breaking] …I know. [All | Slowly Expanding Harmony] Then your name lights up my room, and every promise disappears. [High Tenor] Don’t go… [Lead] You say, “I need you.” [All | Dark Minor Harmony] And that’s all I ever hear. [Final Chorus | Full Harmony, Most Emotional] [Lead] You want me when you’re lonely, lose me when you’re fine. [All] Still I’m here, still I’m here… [Lead] You hold me like forever for a little borrowed time. [All | Major → Minor → Suspended] I should go, I should know, but if you open up that door… [Lead] I’ll hate myself tomorrow… [High Tenor] Tomorrow… [Lead] For wanting you tonight. [All | Four-Part Harmony, Slowly Dissolving] Am I your almost? Your maybe? Your favorite way to lie? [Lead, alone] If I’m not the one you love… [All | Whispered Close Harmony] Why won’t you let me be somebody else’s? [Outro | A Cappella] [Bass] Let me go… [Baritone] Let me go… [Tenor] Let me… [High Tenor] Go… [Lead, almost whispered] …unless you mean it. [All | Soft Major/Minor Ambiguous Final Chord] This time. I’ m here, still I’ m here… [Outro | Extended A Cappella, Slow Release, Do Not End Abruptly] [Bass, warm and low] Let me go… [Baritone, entering above] Let me go… [Tenor] If you don’t want me… [High Tenor, soft falsetto] Let me go… [Lead, intimate] But if you reach for me tonight, don’t make it another beautiful lie. [All | Four-Part Close Harmony] Don’t hold me halfway, don’t love me halfway, don’t keep me somewhere between hello and goodbye. [Lead] I gave you every part of me I didn’t know I had to lose. [Baritone] So if you want me… [Tenor] Really want me… [High Tenor] Say it now… [All | Rich Major Harmony Slowly Turning Minor] And if you can’t, I’ll finally choose the heart you never chose. [Instrumental Breath | Rhodes, Soft Bass, Ambient Pad] [Lead, almost whispered] Maybe tomorrow I won’t wait for your call. [Bass] Mmm… [Baritone + Tenor] Maybe tomorrow… [Lead] I’ll remember I was somebody before you at all. [All | Gentle Four-Part Harmony, Gradually Resolving] Let me go… Let me go… Let me go… [High Tenor, floating above] Or love me… [All | Final Warm Four-Part Chord] All the way. [Vocal Sustain | Ooh / Mmm, Slowly Fading Into Rhodes] [Soft Instrumental Outro | 8 Bars] Rhodes and ambient pads continue after the final lyric. No new vocals. Let the final harmony breathe, gently resolve the major/minor ambiguity, then end with one warm sustained Rhodes chord and soft bass root. Natural complete ending. No abrupt cut. No endless fade.
