Unstable Element (7/4 odd-meter)

[Unstable Element] [Verse 1] [start out with a sitar and switch to guitar ] You walk in like a loaded isotope Smile too bright, half-life too short Every promise you make is a particle That splits the second it leaves your mouth I count the ticks in the quiet after Geiger in my ribs, clicking faster [Pre-chorus] Nothing in you wants to stay whole You call it passion. I call it decay. [Chorus] Unstable element You radiate and call it love Fallout in the furniture Contamination from above Chain reaction when you speak Critical mass of all you keep Unstable element You don’t half-live. You leak. ]Verse 2] This room used to have a nucleus Now it’s just empty orbits and dust You fission every close thing Then wonder why the air tastes like rust Iodine-131 of a mood Burns the thyroid of the whole damn house I used to think I could contain you Lead lining doesn’t work on a mouth ]Pre-chorus{ You don’t explode. You just emit. Slow poison dressed as “this is it.” ]Chorus{ Unstable element You radiate and call it love Fallout in the furniture Contamination from above Chain reaction when you speak Critical mass of all you keep Unstable element You don’t half-live. You leak. [Bridge] Some elements only exist Because they refuse to last You were never meant to be held You were meant to be passed I used to stand in the plume Calling the glow a kind of truth Now I know the difference Between heat and what’s using you [Final chorus] Unstable element Decaying in the light Radioactive sentiment That never learned to die right No half-life left to bargain No shielding left to wear You were never the reaction You were always the air ]