Obsession

Lyrics

[Intro - rain-soaked synths, distant church bells, low male vocal hum]

[Verse 1 - intimate, half-whispered over pulsing sub-bass and soft rain samples]
Since we were seven on the swings, I’ve carried your smile like a blade in my chest;
You never looked back when the years turned us strangers, but I kept every laugh like a holy text.
Tonight the city sleeps under blue neon rain, I slip through your window, chloroform on my breath,
Lift you like a secret into the passenger seat—finally, you’re coming home to rest.

[Pre-Chorus - heartbeat kick, rising strings, tightening reverb on vocals]
They’ll call it a crime, I call it the ending we earned;
Every mile we drive, another page of the past gets burned.

[Chorus - dark pop drop, cinematic drums, layered male vocals with cold harmonies]
I keep you, I keep you, locked in the quiet where only I hear you breathe;
I keep you, I keep you, Stockholm blooming like roses between your teeth.
If the world knocks, it bleeds on my floor;
If love is a cage, then baby, we’re never leaving anymore.

[Verse 2 - colder, trap-influenced hi-hats, distant screams buried in mix]
Your mother came looking with sirens and flashlights, now she’s fertilizer under the pines;
The neighbor who smiled too wide at the market found peace in the trunk of my car.
You watch through the blinds with that soft little smile, the one that says “thank you for choosing me first”;
Every body that falls just proves how much I love you—witness or witness, they all get the same verse.

[Pre-Chorus - tension swell, vocal chops echoing “I keep you”]
They’ll call it obsession, I call it the truth you were born to believe;
Every name on the list is another reason you never have to leave.

[Chorus - heavier, anthemic, distorted low-end, doubled vocals]
I keep you, I keep you, locked in the quiet where only I hear you breathe;
I keep you, I keep you, Stockholm blooming like roses between your teeth.
If the world knocks, it bleeds on my floor;
If love is a cage, then baby, we’re never leaving anymore.

[Bridge - stripped piano and rain, fragile almost-sung delivery]
You used to run from me in the schoolyard,
Now you ask if I’m cold when the nights get long;
I don’t need heaven if I have your heartbeat
Counting the days like a favorite song.

[Final Chorus - full production, choir-like layers, last line whispered over fading heartbeat]
I keep you, I keep you, until the sirens forget how to speak;
I keep you, I keep you, forever is only the distance between our heartbeats.
If the world knocks, it dies where it stands;
Stockholm is mercy when mercy wears my hands.