Dark Enough to Stay

[Verse 1]
You wait by the stair
Keys in your hand
Tracing my name
Into your skin
Eyes like a threat
Soft as a plea
You say, "If you go
You don't know what waits for you out there"
[Chorus]
I tried to run
Into the dark, into the distance
But every road
Curved right back to your insistence
You're dangerous
You hold too tight, you watch me breathe
But in your arms
It's dark enough for me to see
It's dark enough to stay
[Verse 2]
You check every lock
Count every sound
Reading the air
Like it's a wound
I flinch at your touch
Still, I don't move
Your shadow feels
Like armor I never learned to choose
[Chorus]
I tried to run
Into the dark, into the distance
But every road
Curved right back to your insistence
You're dangerous
You hold too tight, you watch me breathe
But in your arms
It's dark enough for me to see
It's dark enough to stay
[Bridge]
Is this safety
Or a silver cage? (tell me)
Am I breaking
Or am I finally brave?
You say, "I will keep you"
And my pulse slows down
Maybe I'm not healing
But I'm not falling now
[Chorus]
I tried to run
Into the dark, into the distance
But every road
Curved right back to your existence
You're dangerous
You hold too tight, you watch me breathe
But in your arms
I make a fragile kind of peace
In your arms
It's dark enough for me to see
It's dark enough to stay (stay)

Brooding alt-pop with female vocals; low pulsing synths and distant toms under hushed verses, then a soaring, bittersweet chorus with stacked harmonies and a gritty bass swell. Guitars creep in with tremolo and slides, bridge blooms into cinematic strings before dropping back to an intimate final hook., theme