Real with you

Intro (2–4 bars, half-sung / filtered)

I was real with you…

Yeah, I was real with you…

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Verse 1

I never would’ve left you

Not in silence, not in fear

I didn’t care about the numbers

I only cared you were here

You say you’re older like it’s heavy

Like love fades if you wait

But time never scared me

When I looked at your face

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Pre-Chorus (build, repeated rhythm)

You talk about the years like they decide

What stays alive

What survives

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Hook (short, VERY repeatable)

Claudia, I would’ve married you

Yeah, I was real with you

Could’ve been twenty years older too

Yeah, I was real with you

(repeat hook once — subtle variation in delivery)

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Verse 2

You said maybe in thirty years

If we’re not side by side

I’d be a beautiful memory

You’d carry inside

But I wasn’t loving maybe

Wasn’t planning the end

I was standing in the moment

Doing what felt honest then

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Pre-Chorus (same, but quieter)

You talk about the years like they decide

What stays alive

What survives

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Hook (full, hypnotic loop)

Claudia, I would’ve married you

Yeah, I was real with you

If I’m just a memory to you

At least I was real with you

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Outro (fade, mantra-style)

I was real with you

I was real with you

I was real with you…

(instrumental fades, vocal fragments echo)