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
VeraKnox
