The Room, Not Me

[Intro - Instrumental] [Verse 1 - Low, restrained contralto] Copper blooms behind my teeth No one taught the walls to sleep There's a warm hand in the wall It can touch, but not recall The wires learned a softer lie One small breath they couldn't buy [Pre-Chorus - Building tension] Every time the signal bends You mistake the bend for yes You keep asking for the key Let the silence answer you [Chorus - Firm, controlled intensity] You can have the room, not me Keep the lights and keep the key Let the needle miss a beat Let it drag against the teeth You can have the room, not me You can name the sound you hear But the voice was never yours [Instrumental - Tenor Sax and Synth Interplay] [Verse 2 - Intimate, increasingly tense] Powder settles on the switch Black rain gathers in the vents Someone changed the shape of air Still you ask me to inhale The floor keeps another time One step falls outside the line That one's mine and mine alone [Pre-Chorus - Increasing pressure] Every time the signal bends You mistake the bend for yes You keep asking for the key Let the silence answer you [Chorus - Intensified] You can have the room, not me Keep the lights and keep the key Let the needle miss a beat Let it drag against the teeth You can have the room, not me You can name the sound you hear But the voice was never yours [Instrumental Break - Aggressive Tenor Sax, Mechanical Rhythms] [Bridge - Near-whisper, minimal instrumentation] The light goes red The room goes still I leave a space You cannot fill Not the door that lets me out Not the door... [Final Chorus - Full instrumental return, fierce contralto] You can have the room, not me Keep the lights and keep the key Let the needle miss a beat Let it drag against the teeth You can have the room, not me You can name the sound you hear But the voice was never yours [Outro - Sparse, low contralto] You can have the room... Not me. [Instrumental End]