[Verse 1]
I learned the shape of wanting
From the way you said my name
I could raise a little fever
Without ever feeling flame
You mistook the careful breathing
For a door I left unlocked
I was acting out a hunger
You were building on the thought
[Pre-Chorus]
There’s a cruelty in a promise
When the body plays along
You can make a heart surrender
To a place where it belongs
[Chorus]
Don’t call it passion if I forged it
Don’t call it truth because you shook
I put a counterfeit confession
In the safest place you looked
Now you’re searching every silence
For the woman I performed
I lit the fuse beneath your trust
And wondered why you came back burned
[Verse 2]
You kept asking if I meant it
I kept answering with skin
Every little practiced tremor
Pulled you further under in
I could see the cost collecting
In the corners of your eyes
But the easiest lie to live with
Is the one that gets you by
[Pre-Chorus]
There’s a danger in the theater
When the audience is one
If you hand somebody heaven
They may blame themselves when it is gone
[Chorus]
Don’t call it passion if I forged it
Don’t call it truth because you shook
I put a counterfeit confession
In the safest place you looked
Now you’re searching every silence
For the woman I performed
I lit the fuse beneath your trust
And wondered why you came back burned
[Bridge]
I wasn’t trying to ruin you
I was trying to stay untouched
But a lie can wear a heartbeat
And a heartbeat can mean too much
You gave me all your private language
I gave you lines I’d memorized
Now every honest touch feels guilty
When it finds you through my disguise
[Final Chorus]
Don’t call it passion if I forged it
Don’t call it mercy when I stayed
I made a sanctuary counterfeit
Then watched you kneel inside the frame
If desire is a loaded promise
Then I held it to your head
I was faking heat to feel in control
And left you doubting what you felt
[Outro]
I’m sorry doesn’t make it honest
It only names the damage done
You were real inside the moment
I was hiding from the one