The Scent of You

Verse 1
Your name arrives before your footsteps,  
Carried in the quiet of the air.  
I breathe, and something ancient opens,  
Something older than the words I wear.  
My body knows you before I know you,  
My pulse remembers what my mind forgets.  
Your scent moves through me like a prophecy,  
A truth my bones have never once misread.

Chorus
And oh—  
The scent of you unravels me,  
Softens every guarded place.  
It enters like a whispered homecoming,  
Like rain returning to a thirsty plain.  
I breathe you in, and I am undone,  
I breathe you in, and I am found again.

Verse 2
Even your clothes become a relic,  
A shrine of all the ways you’ve lived.  
Fabric heavy with your after-presence,  
Holding the ghost your body gives.  
I lift it to my face like prayer,  
A hunger I can’t reason through.  
My ribcage opens like a door,  
Trying to breathe its way back into you.

Bridge
When distance stretches like a desert,  
And night is longer than it should be,  
I ache for that invisible field—  
The quiet safety of your chemistry.  
Where vigilance loosens its trembling grip,  
Where the animal in me can finally rest.  
Where scent becomes a sacred language,  
And longing speaks without a breath.

Chorus (Final)
And oh—  
The scent of you unravels me,  
Breaks me open, makes me whole.  
It calls the oldest parts of me,  
The spine, the memory, the soul.  
I breathe you in, and I surrender,  
I breathe you in, and I return.  
To the place where love is primitive,  
To the place where bodies learn.

Outro (Spoken / Whispered)
Your scent…  
the quiet map my heart follows home.

Sacred Neo‑Soul with Ethereal Choral Undercurrents