[Cold Open: dry intimate lead; silence before bass answer] You say I should forget you Make me [Verse 1: clipped rhythmic phrasing; bass and dry drums] You changed my name back in your phone Like that could make us strangers But you still take the long way home Past my place, past the neighbours You tell our friends it wasn’t much A little thing that faded Then why’d you keep the paper cup With my number where you saved it? [Pre-Chorus: melody climbs; guitar enters] You can leave, I won’t stop you You can say you need some space But don’t rewrite the whole damn summer Just to make a clean escape [Chorus: melodic, assertive; bass answers title] You say I should forget you Make me Say it never felt like that Make me Tell me how you held me Like you had nowhere to be You can walk away, baby You can’t unkiss me [Post-Chorus: syncopated self-doubles] Make me, make me Make me believe We were nothing, nothing You can’t unkiss me [Verse 2: playful bite; percussion variation] That song comes on, you leave the kitchen Everybody sees you go I don’t need another witness I was there, I ought to know I’m not asking for a promise I’m not waiting by the stairs You can tell me that it’s over Don’t tell me it wasn’t there [Pre-Chorus: more exposed; one-beat pause] You can leave, I won’t stop you I can learn to let you go But I’m keeping what was honest Even if you say you don’t [Chorus: wider harmony; clear central lead] You say I should forget you Make me Say it never felt like that Make me Tell me how you held me Like you had nowhere to be You can walk away, baby You can’t unkiss me [Instrumental: eight bars; bass motif; chopped “make me”] [Bridge: electric piano; plain unguarded voice] Maybe this is how you do it Make it small enough to lose I don’t have to hate the memory To get over you [Final Chorus: fuller groove; emotional change] You say I should forget you Make me Say it never felt like that Make me I can want a different ending And still turn around and leave You can walk away, baby You can’t unkiss me [Outro: dry vocal; final bass answer] I’ll get over you Don’t tell me what it meant
