Tension Between Us

[Verse 1]
You talk in half-truths
Hand on the doorframe
Smile like a secret
I’m dying to decode
Your eyes keep flicking
Red to the floorboards
Like you’re rehearsing
Every word you won’t say
[Pre-Chorus]
You lean in
Pull back
Every breath a trap
I can taste the crack
In the way you laugh (yeah)
[Chorus]
There’s a tension between us
Like a wire pulled tight
Every inch that you close
Sets another fuse alight
I could hate you
Could need you
In the very same night
There’s a tension between us
And it’s eating me alive
[Verse 2]
Coffee gone bitter
Cold in your fingers
You trace the rim slow
Like you’re circling around me
You drop a sharp joke
Aim for my armor
Then look away quick
Like you’re scared you hit skin
[Pre-Chorus]
You say it’s “not deep”
But your hands still shake
You pretend to sleep
While the walls vibrate (oh)
[Chorus]
There’s a tension between us
Like a wire pulled tight
Every inch that you close
Sets another fuse alight
I could hate you
Could need you
In the very same night
There’s a tension between us
And it’s eating me alive
[Bridge]
[Beat strips to a stuttering pulse
Distant vocal echoes]
Say my name
Don’t say it
Pull me in
Then break it
Are we friends
Are we flames
Are we both
Too afraid
[Chorus]
There’s a tension between us
Like a wire pulled tight
Every word that we swallow
Turns to sparks in the night
I could lose you
Could choose you
I’m suspended in the bite
Of this tension between us
Till we tear or we unite (oh)

rock, Dark art-pop meets indie rock, male vocals. Glitchy drum programming stacked with distorted bass, icy synth stabs, and reverb-washed guitars. Verses stay tight and minimal, vocal close and intimate; pre-chorus adds off-kilter percussion and rising drones. Chorus explodes with crunchy guitars, octave vocal doubles, and staggered glitch cuts on key words. Bridge strips back to pulse and whispers before a final, over-saturated chorus hits hard then cuts sharply., hypnotic, art pop, indie rock, pop