Skin against skin 9

Intro

Bare skin catches the light.

Heat rises slow

Verse

Fingers tracing the shape of your spine.

Your pulse in my palm. You never told me that this was fine.

Black air thickening with every step.

I lose myself where you still keep track of me

Pre-Chorus

Should I count these breaths, or should I just take them?

Every heartbeat wants the one before it.

Skin against skin, let go of what's left.

You're the only thing I haven't forgotten yet

Chorus

Keep your hands on mine, keep my name unsaid.

Let the dark do what darkness always does – it breeds.

We are made of nothing but this air, this space.

So let's forget where we started and just find our place.

Keep your hands on mine, don't ask me to speak.

Just hold me close until we both stop keeping time

Verse

Your collarbone against my ribs, a slow drum in the dark.

I never knew how much I wanted this before it started. Your shoulder blades moving underneath skin that's been touched.

No reason why you'd want mine, but somehow here it is –

Pre-Chorus

Should I count these breaths, or should I just take them?

Every heartbeat wants the one before it.

Skin against skin, let go of what's left.

You're the only thing I haven't forgotten yet

Chorus

Keep your hands on mine, keep my name unsaid.

Let the dark do what darkness always does – it breeds.

We are made of nothing but this air, this space.

So let's forget where we started and just find our place.

Keep your hands on mine, don't ask me to speak.

Just hold me close until we both stop keeping time

Bridge

No names here. No faces. Just the sound of you taking every breath I take.

This isn't a kiss – it's a whole new kind of language.

We're not speaking at all. We're just making something together.

And I don't think this is going to end when we find our way out of here

Chorus

Keep your hands on mine, keep my name unsaid.

Let the dark do what darkness always does – it breeds.

We are made of nothing but this air, this space.

So let's forget where we started and just find our place.

Keep your hands on mine, don't ask me to speak.

Just hold me close until we both stop keeping time

Outro

Hold my name unsaid. Hold my hand until the light comes back up.