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(FEMALE VERSE 1)
I’ve been pulling you out of fires
you pretend don’t burn you.
You close your mouth,
lock every door inside your chest
and leave me knocking.
Don’t you see it?
Your storms hit me too.
Every tear you hide
is another one that falls from me.
I’m tired…
not of loving you,
but of bleeding for two.
And I’m scared
’cause I feel myself slipping
right through your shaking hands.
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(MALE VERSE 1)
I’m calling for help,
but the sound dies
before it ever reaches air.
I see you reaching for me,
angel—
but the darkness moves faster.
The words choke me,
caught in the wires of my own mind.
I know I’m losing you,
I know I’m pushing you away
while begging you to stay.
I’m terrified…
not of the pain,
but of the way I see you fading
every time I fall silent.
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(FEMALE PRE-CHORUS)
If you fight this alone,
I’ll drown with you.
And I don’t know
how much longer my heart can last.
(MALE PRE-CHORUS)
If you give up on us,
it’ll finish me.
Baby, don’t let me die
with all these words unsaid.
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(TOGETHER – CHORUS)
Hold me when I break,
don’t let the dark take us apart.
We’re both hurting,
both shaking,
but our hands keep finding each other in the dark.
We need each other—
even when we can’t speak,
even when we can’t breathe.
Stay with me.
We’re stronger
when we bleed together,
not alone.
Hold me.
I’ll hold you.
Let’s not fall apart tonight.
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(FEMALE VERSE 2)
I tried to be your shelter,
but you keep walking into storms
without me.
You think you’re protecting me
by hiding your pain,
but you’re killing us both.
I can’t watch you fade anymore.
I can’t keep pretending
your silence doesn’t tear me open.
I’m breaking…
and I’m scared you don’t see it.
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(MALE VERSE 2)
I see it.
God, I see everything.
Every time you wipe your tears
thinking I won’t notice—
I feel it like knives.
I never meant to shut you out.
I just don’t know
how to let someone hold the pieces
I barely recognize as mine.
But losing you…
that’s the one fear
that hits harder than all the darkness combined.
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(TOGETHER – BRIDGE)
F (soft, breaking):
I’m tired of crying alone beside you…
M (cracked voice):
I’m tired of hiding the parts of me that need you…
F:
I can’t keep falling for you
while you fall without me—
M:
Then fall with me,
not away from me…
BOTH (explodes):
Let’s stop running
from the one thing
that could save us.
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(FINAL CHORUS – BOTH)
Hold me when I shake,
when the fear gets louder than my voice.
Hold me when I break,
when my heart feels too heavy to carry.
Don’t leave,
don’t run,
don’t let the night convince us
we’re better off alone.
We need each other.
We always did.
And maybe love isn’t healing—
maybe it’s surviving
together.
Hold me.
I’ll hold you.
Whatever comes,
we don’t fall alone.
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(OUTRO – WHISPERED, TOGETHER)
Stay.
Breathe.
Don’t let go.
I need you.
You need me.
And we’ll make it…
as long as we don’t break
apart.
JOREN
