[Verse 1]
You say my name like it means something,
Soft in the half-light, slow and kind.
I try to smile, but I can’t hold it,
The weight of me slips out of time.
You trace the pieces I can’t carry,
Call them art, call them divine—
But if you saw the way I see me,
You’d stop trying to find the light.
[Chorus]
When you call me beautiful,
I forget how to breathe.
Your love feels like forgiveness,
For something I can’t leave.
You see gold in the ashes,
Where I only see the fall.
I wish I could be the man you love,
When you call me beautiful.
[Verse 2]
The mirror never learned your language,
It only speaks in quiet wars.
You kiss the ghosts beneath my silence,
Like they’re worth fighting for.
I try to live inside your vision,
But the world keeps pulling me through—
All the ways they look, the words they say,
I wish I didn’t feel them too.
[Chorus]
When you call me beautiful,
I forget how to breathe.
Your love feels like forgiveness,
For something I can’t leave.
You see gold in the ashes,
Where I only see the fall.
I wish I could be the man you love,
When you call me beautiful.
[Bridge]
Maybe someday I’ll see it too—
The warmth you paint beneath the bruises.
But tonight I just stay still,
And let your voice undo the ruins.
[Final Chorus]
When you call me beautiful,
It sounds too good to be true.
But I keep your words like fragile things,
Till I learn to see me too.
You see gold in the ashes,
Where I only see the fall.
I wish I could be the man you love,
When you call me beautiful.
[Outro]
When you call me beautiful…
I almost believe it.
