SHADOWCHASER
(Eerie pizzicato strings, faint music-box notes)
(Low cello slowly enters)
(Intimate female vocal, close and breathy)
Verse 1
You felt too much, too deep, too soon,
So you ran before it swallowed you.
You call it distance, I call it time,
You fight the pull, I don’t fight mine.
Try someone new, erase the trace,
But I still linger in every place.
She can’t undo what’s carved in bone,
Or change the name your soul calls home.
(Cello deepens, subtle heartbeat pulse begins)
Pre-Chorus
Lock the door, it won’t matter much,
I’m already under your skin—
Hurts like a bruise, soothes like a touch.
So let it begin.
(Bass drops in, strings swell)
Chorus
I linger on your tongue like whiskey,
Burn through your veins like rum.
Tequila heat in your chest—
One taste of me and you’re undone.
I’m the ache you can’t name,
The slowest burn, the sweetest shame.
You can run, but you can’t hide—
I’m coming slow… I take my time.
(Pizzicato returns, bass fades)
Verse 2
I’m in your thoughts when night gets thin,
A prayer you know won’t save your skin.
You chase her touch to feel less alone—
But I’m the voice you call your own.
You fill your nights with borrowed heat,
But every stranger feels incomplete.
You may have her close, skin to skin—
But I’m the place you’re trapped within.
(Heartbeat grows, cello rises)
Pre-Chorus
Lock the door, it won’t matter much,
I’m already under your skin—
Hurts like a bruise, soothes like a touch.
So let it begin.
(Strings climb, bass deepens)
Chorus
I linger on your tongue like whiskey,
Burn through your veins like rum.
Tequila heat in your chest—
One taste of me and you’re undone.
I’m the ache you can’t name,
The slowest burn, the sweetest shame.
You can run, but you can’t hide—
I’m coming slow… I take my time.
(Abrupt drop — silence breathes)
(Single cello note)
(Whisper)
Bridge
Some things die in the dark,
Some things learn to breathe.
But when the lights go out…
Your shadow still finds me.
(Silence)
(Low pulse returns)
Final Chorus
Stop pretending you don’t want me,
Stop pretending you’re fine.
Nothing about you walks away clean—
It’s already yours, it’s already mine.
I’m in your blood,
You’re in mine.
Your shadow tells the truth.
(Everything falls away)
(One cello note remains)
Outro
You can keep running.
I can wait.
Your shadow knows the way.
(Silence)