Recipe For You

[INTRO – warm electric piano chords, soft vinyl texture, brushed snare, gentle bass swell]
I thought I could fix you slow
Like something I could learn to know
If I stayed close enough
To you

[VERSE 1 – laid-back groove, warm bassline, human-timed snare, intimate close-mic vocal]
I wrote you down in little ways
Like you were something I could shape
A memory I could arrange
By hand

A pinch of what you used to be
A little more of what I need
Like love was just a recipe
I missed

But every time I tried to taste
It never stayed in place
It changed before I could say
It’s done

[PRE-CHORUS – groove tightens slightly, subtle chord lift, soft backing hum]
I follow every sign
Like it still aligns
But something in it shifts
Every time

[CHORUS – fuller groove, warm bass forward, layered harmonies, gentle lift]
I tried to make a recipe for you
But it never comes out true
Every time I get close to you
It changes too

I tried to make a recipe for you
But it never listens to
Anything I want it to
Do

[VERSE 2 – soft syncopation, subtle percussion accents, reflective tone]
I thought I could measure love
Like sugar, salt, and enough
Like I could balance what was rough
Inside

But every mix I tried to keep
Started breathing underneath
Like it was something I could not
Control

And now I see it wasn’t mine
To stabilize or define
It had its own design
All along

[PRE-CHORUS – slight tension build, bass becomes more expressive]
It moves when I let go
And breaks what I don’t know
Like something living in
The low

[CHORUS – richer harmonies, soulful layering]
I tried to make a recipe for you
But it never comes out true
Every time I get close to you
It changes too

I tried to make a recipe for you
But it never listens to
Anything I want it to
Do

[BRIDGE – stripped instrumentation, electric piano forward, emotional focus]
You weren’t meant to be
Something I could keep
In steps and symmetry
Or time

I kept trying anyway
Like you would stay the same
But you always drifted away
From mine

[FINAL CHORUS – full warm groove, layered vocals, emotional resolution]
I tried to make a recipe for you
But it never comes out true
Even when I get close to you
It changes too

I tried to make a recipe for you
But it never listens to
Anything I want it to
Do

[OUTRO – piano and bass fade, brushed drums slow, soft vocal tail]
I tried…
I tried…
But it moved…
It moved…

Neo-soul pop, alt Pop, warm bass groove, drums, electric piano, intimate female vocals, soft emotional deliver