Open Arms

[Verse 1]
[M] Met you in a thrift store mirror
Half my face
Your eyes in frame
[F] You laughed
Said "I look tired"
But you kept saying my name
[Verse 2]
[M] Coffee stains on your notebook
Every page a half-formed plan
[F] You said
"I break what I can't fix"
But you still reached for my hand
[Chorus]
Open arms in the quiet rain
Take me as I come
Tangled and strange
If I fall apart in your steady gaze
Will you hold what’s real and let the rest fade
[Verse 3]
[F] Found your jacket on my chair
Smelled like smoke and winter air
[M] Left it there on purpose
Just to prove that I’d been there
[Verse 4]
[M] Your records stacked like crooked teeth
Every groove a different year
[F] We danced too close
A little off beat
Spun our doubts till they disappeared
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
[M] I’ve been the storm
I’ve been the flood
[F] You’ve been the shore that never runs
[M] If I bring all my broken parts
[F] Will you trace every crack in the dark
[Verse 5]
[F] Morning light on your shoulders
Dust in the air like tiny prayers
[M] You said
"Stay until it’s over"
I said
"I don’t know when that is
But I’ll dare"
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[crescendo]
[M&F] If we lose our way by evening
Follow footprints back through the past
Every doubt we’ve been believing
Burns out slow
But it won’t outlast
[Chorus]

rock, Warm fingerpicked acoustic guitar with subtle tape hiss, brushed kit, and blooming reverb. Verses duet between male and female vocals, trading lines; choruses in tight harmony with a slightly bigger indie-rock lift (tasteful bass, soft electric swells). Bridges lean into a darker alternative/industrial disco pulse with muted synth pulses and toms, then return to intimate folk for the final chorus., acoustic, disco, indie rock, alternative rock, folk, ballad, industrial, europop