If I Can’t Stay Would You

[Verse 1]
You trace my name
In the fog on the glass
Say it again
Like you’re slowing the crash
Your eyes ask things
That your mouth won’t touch
You hold on loose
Like it might be too much
[Chorus]
If I can’t stay
Would you
Haunt the places I once moved through
Leave the light on in your room
Talk to shadows like they’re me
Too
If I can’t stay
Would you
Keep a space where I once grew
Would you bruise your heart on truth
If I can’t stay
Would you
[Verse 2]
You pull me close
Like a crime you might confess
Counting my breaths
While you hide what’s in your chest
Silence so loud
It hums under your skin
We lean on the edge
But we don’t fall in
[Chorus]
If I can’t stay
Would you
Haunt the places I once moved through
Leave the light on in your room
Talk to shadows like they’re me
Too
If I can’t stay
Would you
Keep a space where I once grew
Would you bruise your heart on truth
If I can’t stay
Would you
[Bridge]
[Beat drops
Bass swells
Distant choral backing vocals]
Would you ache
Would you curse my name (oh)
Would you chase every face the same (yeah)
Would you drown what you feel in sleep
Or guard every secret you keep
[Chorus]
If I can’t stay
Would you
Haunt the places I once moved through
Leave the light on in your room
Talk to shadows like they’re me
Too
If I can’t stay
Would you
Keep a space where I once grew
Would you bruise your heart on truth
If I can’t stay
Would you (would you)
[Outro]
If I can’t stay
Would you
(Would you, would you)

rock, Dreamy art-pop ballad with male vocals over pulsing bass and cinematic folk-tinged guitars; verses start sparse with soft electric guitar arpeggios and airy synth pads, tension building through tom-heavy drums and swelling background vocals; chorus drops into a wide, seductive groove with reverb-soaked harmonies, atmospheric strings, and a subtle rock edge from overdriven guitars in the second half; energy arcs from intimate whisper to cathartic climax, then pulls back into a haunting, echoing outro hook, dream pop, folk, ballad, art pop