[Verse 1 — FEMALE: My Voice - 9 Sep] [intimate, close-mic, restrained] I was standing tall, trying not to fall, lying to myself like I didn't feel at all. Finding every kind of excuse to make the real unreal, turning down the volume on everything I feel. Something else, someone else, anything would do. I kept finding somewhere else to run instead of running into you. [Pre-Chorus — FEMALE] And I got so good at leaving I believed that I was gone. Kept calling it a moment when the moment lasted on. [Chorus 1 — FEMALE] [emotional melodic lift] Fuck me, because I don't need this, I was fine before you came. I can bury any feeling, I can give it any name. But this was never need, and that's what I couldn't see. You're not something that I'm missing you're the passion chasing me. I can run from almost anything. I can't outrun you. [Verse 2 — FEMALE] [intimate, emotionally imperfect] I tried another feeling, let it settle on my skin, gave myself a different story I could almost live within. And I wasn't trying to fool them, wasn't playing some disguise. How could I be lying to somebody when I bought my own damn lies? I could make an almost matter. I could make the wrong feel right. I could hold it close enough to keep you somewhere out of sight. But every time the room went quiet, every time the noise was through, there was something I couldn't name still pulling me to you. [Pre-Chorus — FEMALE] [MALE: distant low shadow harmony] So I changed what I was looking at, changed what I believed I knew. Funny how I changed damn near everything except the way I felt for you. [Chorus 2 — MALE BARITONE ALPHA] [deep, intimate, close-mic, controlled] [NO BELTING YET] [FEMALE: faint breathy backing] Fuck me, because I don't need this, I was fine before you came. I can bury any feeling, I can give it any name. But this was never need, and that's what I couldn't see. You're not something that I'm missing you're the passion chasing me. I can run from almost anything. I can't outrun you. [Bridge — FEMALE] [vulnerable, increasingly exposed] I ran so fast I called it freedom, pushed you further from the frame. Thought that if I kept on moving, I'd forget what I ran from. But you don't hide behind perfection, you don't dress yourself to please. Every rough and human part of you does something reckless underneath. No disguise and no performance, nothing borrowed, nothing new. God, I asked the world for something real then I got you. [COMPLETE SILENCE] [FEMALE — intimate, almost whispered] [emotion rising into final line] So fuck me, because I don't need this. Need was never what was true. I can run from almost anything but I can't outrun what I feel for you!!! [sub-bass slowly swells] [MALE breath enters close-mic] [DROP —bagpipes against electric violin] [Verse — SAME MALE BARITONE ALPHA] Well —Fuck Me - - I tried to turn away from this too- I have no reason- not one thing I’m trying to conquer -no -I don’t feel the need - - I won’t ask life with a plea—or get down on one knee- but it knew what’s inside of me —was an aching brutality—that’s killing me So Fuck Me I cant hit the switch —- lord knows I tried to take these feelings —-bury them deep inside- way in the back of this MIND OF MINE—but they dig their way out -every time - [MALE intensity rising] so Ive come to find that I can’t look away - I have to learn to stay — turn back around— and come face to face with this infinite sound— it’s not backing down - nah [MALE passion breaking through] [FEMALE breathy harmony rises] I asked no one for anything and this life still gave me you —- for this world knew -I needed this too [MALE nearly full belt] — that I needed you !! So —— [MALE — FULL POWER BARITONE BELT] [raw, passionate, almost desperate] I can run from almost anything but I can't outrun you. [MALE — RAW SHOUT] Fuck me [BEAT CRASHES BACK] [Final Chorus — FEMALE + MALE] [TRUE PASSIONATE DUET] [FEMALE main melody] [MALE deep harmonies + overlapping responses] [raw breaths, emotional strain, maximum release] Fuck me, because I don't need this, maybe that's what scared me too. There was nothing here to rescue, nothing missing before you. You're not filling some damn empty space, I was whole before this too. That's what makes it so much harder I don't need you. I just choose you. I can run until I'm breathless, change the story, change the view. I can run from almost anything but I can't outrun you. [Outro — FEMALE: My Voice - 9 Sep] [MALE: distant low ghost harmony] God, I tried. I changed the picture, changed my mind. But some things don't disappear because you want them to. I asked for something real... [breath] Then I got you.
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