[INTRO - minimal, eerie, slow build]
She don't even know my name
She don't even feel the rain
I'm just watching from the same old place
Memorizing every line on her face
[VERSE 1 - melancholy, dragging, 2am feel]
She walks in the room and the whole world slows
Pale like the winter, everybody knows
Eyes like a painting hung up on the wall
Beautiful, hollow, waiting to fall
Got somebody else but she looks so lost
I'd give her everything no matter the cost
Standing right beside her but I'm miles away
Been loving a ghost every single day
[HOOK - dreamy, aching, emotional peak]
You're the prettiest corpse I ever loved
Flowers in your hair but it's never enough
You belong to him, that much is clear
Prettiest corpse and you don't know I'm here
You're the prettiest corpse I ever loved
Cold to the touch but I can't give you up
You belong to him, you were never mine
Prettiest corpse, I'm just killing time
[VERSE 2 - slightly heavier, beat picks up]
She lets him hold her but her eyes go blank
Smiles at the right times like a ship that sank
Got little secrets lined up on her shelf
Looks like an angel that don't love herself
I keep a picture I took when she wasn't looking
Cigarette smoke and the winter was cooking
She looked so pretty just staring at nothing
Closest I get is just passing her something
[HOOK]
[BRIDGE - stripped, almost spoken, beat drops]
You're still breathing but I already grieve you
Wrote you a letter but I'd never give you
Something like that, you don't even know me
Just another face, just somebody lonely
You're the prettiest thing that was never mine
I think about you at the end of every night
Can't hold onto something that was never there
Loving you quietly like you'd ever care
[VERSE 3 - cinematic, defeated, slow and heavy]
Saw you together down on fifth in the cold
Wearing his jacket like a story being told
Laughed at something he said, tucked into his chest
I looked the other way and swallowed the rest
You'll never know what I would've given
The way you cross my mind every night I'm living
Prettiest thing that was never in reach
Right in front of me but still out of reach
[HOOK]
[OUTRO - fading, ghostly, beat dissolves]
She don't feel pain now
She don't feel me now
Prettiest thing in the room
But there's no one home now
Still I stay, still I stay
Prettiest corpse, fade away
Still I stay, still I stay
Never mine, but I stay
Vesper
