To Want This Too

Verse 1 – Her (hurt, controlled)

I miss you…

Not just your name lighting up my phone

But the way you said “forever”

Like you knew we’d make it home

Now every room feels different

Like love just packed and left

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Verse 2 – Him (defensive, layered with guilt)

You think I left you careless

Like I didn’t feel it too

Like one bad night erased

Everything we built was true

But loving you was never

Something I regret

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Pre-Chorus – Overlapping

Her: One bad day, one bad fight

Him: It wasn’t just that night

Her: You let go so easy

Him: I was barely holding tight

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Chorus – Collision

Her (full voice):

I don’t want to start over!

I don’t want somebody new!

I don’t wanna learn another heart

The way I learned you!

Him (cutting through):

It wasn’t that I didn’t love you!

It wasn’t someone new!

I was drowning in forever

And didn’t know what to do!

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Verse 3 – Her (angrier)

Don’t tell me it was pressure

Don’t tell me it was fear

You were holding my whole future

Then you disappeared

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Verse 4 – Him (raw)

You wanted us unshaken

I felt the cracks beneath

I was terrified of failing

Everything you saw in me

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Pre-Chorus – Rapid Fire

Her: Love doesn’t leave without a reason

Him: Fear can look just like goodbye

Her: So what got you so scared?

Him (shouting): Loving you meant I had to try!

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BRIDGE – Brutal Truth

(Music drops. Just piano. Almost spoken.)

Her:

Did you ever really see a life with me…

Or was I just the right now?

Him (stung):

How can you say that?

Her:

Because forever doesn’t run

The second it gets loud.

Him:

You think I wanted silence?

You think I wanted space?

I left because I felt myself

Starting to lose my place.

Her (voice breaking):

I was building something steady.

Him:

And I was scared I’d tear it down.

Her:

You didn’t give me the chance to stay.

Him (quiet, devastating):

I didn’t think I deserved to.

(Silence.)

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Final Chorus – Not Explosive… Fractured

Her (softer now):

I don’t want to start over…

Him:

I don’t want to lose you…

Her:

I don’t want someone else…

Him:

I just don’t know how to choose you…

Together (not belting — aching):

We don’t want a different future

We don’t want a clean slate

But maybe wanting isn’t enough

When love is tangled in afraid

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Uncertain Outro – No Resolution

Her (almost whisper):

If I reach for you now…

Him:

I don’t know if I’d stay…

Her:

If you asked me to fight…

Him:

I don’t know if I’m brave…

(Long pause. No music.)

Together — barely audible:

We still love each other…

(Beat.)

But maybe that’s not the same

As knowing how