Stepping Stone Heart

[Verse 1]
You call me when you’re bleeding
Bandage in a borrowed shirt
You say I feel like safety
I taste the salt inside your hurt
We’re laughing on your carpet
You trace my arm, count every mark
You say I make you hopeful
I just feel hollow in the dark
[Chorus]
I’m your stepping stone heart
You stand on me to reach the light
You say I saved your life
Then you leave me in the night
I’m your stepping stone heart
You walk across my open scars
You heal up in my arms
Then you run into his arms
[Verse 2]
You write your little novels
About the boys that broke you first
I’m always in the prologue
Never in the final verse
You practice saying “I deserve
A love that doesn’t hurt”
You practice it on my chest
Till you believe every word
[Chorus]
I’m your stepping stone heart
You stand on me to reach the light
You say I saved your life
Then you leave me in the night
I’m your stepping stone heart
You walk across my open scars
You heal up in my arms
Then you run into his arms
[Bridge]
Same script
New name
Same kiss
New pain
You glow
I fade
You grow
I stay
(like always)
[Chorus]
I’m your stepping stone heart
You stand on me to reach the light
You say I saved your life
Then you leave me in the night
I’m your stepping stone heart
You walk across my open scars
One more goodbye, one more ghost
Carved in this stepping stone heart

rap, Smoky trap-blues with heavy bass and mournful violin, male vocals weaving between melodic rap and half-sung confessions. Verses stay intimate and close-mic’d over sparse drums and sub, hook explodes with layered harmonies and crying strings. Ad-libs echo in the distance, reverb-heavy, as the final chorus strips down to voice and violin before the bass drops back in for the last line., romantic, blues, violin