Closer Still

CLOSER STILL

You came in dressed like midnight

With danger on your skin

The room became a graveyard

The moment you walked in

Your shadow touched my shadow

The drums began to bruise

I know that you will ruin me

But I still want to choose

Come closer

Come closer still

Your love is not a feeling

Your love is a kill

Pull me under

Slow, slow, slow

Beat the talking drum

Till my black blood flows

Come closer

Don’t let me breathe

You put the night inside me

Now the night won’t leave

Your mouth tastes like a warning

Your hands confess no crime

You move like sweet possession

One heartbeat out of time

No prayer can protect me

No light can make me run

I hear the ancestors whisper

Don’t touch—but it’s already done

Come closer

Come closer still

Your love is not salvation

Your love is pure will

Pull me under

Slow, slow, slow

Beat the talking drum

Till my black blood flows

Come closer

Don’t let me breathe

You put the night inside me

Now the night won’t leave

Jo, jo—make I follow

Into the dark, no tomorrow

Jo, jo—body hollow

Give me your pain, make I swallow

Gbedu beat beneath the floor

One more step, I need you more

Lock the window, close the door

I’m not the one I was before

You said my name

Like breaking glass

I saw the future

I let it pass

You held my throat

I held your gaze

We made a home

Inside the blaze

Pull me under

Low, low, low

Let the bassline bite

Let the fever grow

Come closer

Don’t let me leave

You put the night inside me

Now the night is me

Closer

Closer still

If love doesn’t destroy me

Then nothing will