Beneath The Want

Verse 1

I don’t fall, I descend

Slow like smoke in your lungs

Every look is a weapon

And you don’t even touch

I feel you before you move

Like thunder under my skin

You don’t promise, you don’t choose

You just let me give in

Pre-Chorus (pull back, almost whispered)

Say my name like it’s loaded

Like you know what it costs

I was whole before I noticed

How badly I want to be lost

Chorus (full, cinematic swell)

I don’t want your love

I want the weight of you

I want the ache that stays

When I’m breaking through

This isn’t safe, this isn’t kind

This is obsession dressed divine

I need you close, I need you gone

I need you like a fault-line song

Verse 2

You don’t chase, you wait

Like you know I’ll return

I swear I try to escape

But I crave how it burns

Every warning goes quiet

When you’re standing there

I don’t ask, I don’t fight it

I just open the door

Pre-Chorus

You feel like a sin I’d repeat

Like a truth I won’t say

Every step closer to you

Is a line I erase

Chorus (bigger than the first)

I don’t want your love

I want the pull, the pain

I want the part of you

That ruins my name

This isn’t right, this isn’t fair

This is want hanging in the air

I need you deep, I need you near

I need you like a fear

Bridge (drop instruments — voice + low piano)

If I drown, don’t save me

If I fall, let it hurt

I’d rather feel you destroy me

Than live untouched

Say nothing, I’ll understand

Say everything with your eyes

If this is where I end

At least I felt alive

(strings rise, tension builds)

Final Chorus (largest, most dramatic)

I don’t want peace

I want the storm

I want the night before the war

I want the want, the need, the ache

I want the damage we both make

If loving you undoes my core

I’d still open every door

Outro (slow fade, intimate)

I don’t want forever

I want beneath the want

I want the moment

That lingers when you’re gone