[Instrumental – soft lo-fi R&B keys, filtered, 72 BPM]
(vinyl crackle… distant pad)
[Voice Note – whispered, emotional]
Yeah…
I don’t even know why you still got me like this…
Years later.
(small breath)
mm…
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Verse 1
[Instrumental – muted keys + light bass heartbeat]
It’s been years and I still feel you in my chest
Like you never really left
I feel your mood when I wake up
I feel your pain when I’m laid up
Tried to drown you out with time
But you swim through every line
[Voice crack / breath]
I be in the shower cryin’
Water runnin’ down my face
Scrubbin’ like I can erase
Every memory on my skin
But you won’t fade…
(soft hum) mm-mm
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Pre-Chorus
[Instrumental – bass swells, drums fade in soft]
I scream your name when I’m alone in my car
Windows down, breakin’ my heart
Every red light feel like a sign
Tellin’ me you still mine
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Chorus
[Instrumental – full R&B drop, warm chords, deep bass]
This a soul tie, baby, it don’t break easy
I tried to love again, but they don’t feel like you to me
My heart still wants you
My mind say “let him go”
How do I teach my heart
What my pride already know?
[Background vocals – breathy ad-libs]
(yeah… mm… you still here)
This a soul tie…
And it’s killin’ me slow
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Verse 2
[Instrumental – drums pull back, snaps only]
Everywhere I go, they approach me
Say I’m beautiful, try to know me
But all I see is your face
In every smile, every mistake
[Voice Note – half spoken]
I don’t want nobody touchin’ me…
[Sung]
If it ain’t you, it’s nothin’ to me
I replay us like a movie
Different ending every time
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Pre-Chorus 2
[Instrumental – bass slides down, tension build]
I caught you lyin’, yeah, I caught you cold
Had to walk away for my self-control
Thought you’d change, but you stayed the same
Ran back to your past, left me with the pain
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Chorus
[Instrumental – full again, heavier emotion]
This a soul tie, baby, it don’t break easy
I tried to love again, but they don’t feel like you to me
My heart still wants you
My mind say “let him go”
How do I teach my heart
What my dignity already know?
[Ad-libs – layered whispers]
(I tried… I tried…)
This a soul tie…
And it’s draggin’ me home
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Bridge
[Instrumental – stripped, just piano + pad]
[Voice Note – crying undertone]
I left with my head high…
Tears in my eyes…
[Sung softly]
Loved you enough to choose me that time
But why love still chase me down?
Why you still live in my body now?
[Background harmony – airy falsetto]
Tell me how you move on free
While I’m still fightin’ memories
[Voice Note – prayer-like]
God, please untangle me…
‘Cause I’m tired of beggin’ peace
(soft run) mm-yeah…
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Breakdown
[Instrumental – beat drops out, silence + reverb]
[Whispered Voice Note]
How you still got access to my soul
When I locked the door so long ago?
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Final Chorus
[Instrumental – emotional peak, layered harmonies]
This a soul tie, and I’m tryna cut it loose
But every time I bleed, it still feel like you
My heart say “stay”
My mind say “run”
How do I say go
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