Keep your pedestal

(Haunting, moody, and emotionally raw—built for female vocals, with violin swells and ghostly echoes.)

(Soft, eerie vocalization—wordless “oohs” in the distance, like a siren’s call.)

You think you love me,

The version of me you’ve painted, soft and safe,

A fleeting mirage draped in light,

But I am not what you see.

I am shadows stitched together,

The restless hum beneath still skin,

A storm that howls behind my smile,

And secrets too heavy to lift.

Do not step closer,

The surface is smoot and , the depths are jagged.

I’ve swallowed hearts that wandered too near,

Their echoes still linger, hollow and strained.

(Echoed whispers: “Hollow and strained…”)

You’re safer with rose-colored glasses,

Safer in your gilded illusion of me.

Admire me from the calm shore,

But never swim in my sea.

“You don’t want this.”

For I am darker than you dream,

Unstable is the wind that shakes the trees.

And you

You are not built to carry my weight.

(Violin chaos, crashing drum beats—vocal run or cry here.)

So worship me from afar,

Let your love be a distant light.

Close enough to feel the warmth,

But far enough… to watch me fade.

(Echoed whisper: “Watch me fade…” dissolving into the distance.)

"Survive..."