Mmm… midnight’s still awake
Your shadow knows my name

Curtains move like they can breathe
Candlelight folds over me
Every thought turns into touch
Every word becomes too much
We don’t rush, we just sway
Let the silence have its way

Your voice slides low, my heart replies
No need to talk, no need for why

Whisper slow, let it flow
Every heartbeat tells me so
Whisper slow, don’t let go
We got nowhere else to go
Whisper slow, body close
Love’s the language no one knows

Vinyl crackles in the room
Time dissolves like perfume
Every second stretched in gold
Every breath we never told
We don’t need to make it right
Just another endless night

Your voice slides low, my heart replies
No need to talk, no need for why

Whisper slow, let it flow
Every heartbeat tells me so
Whisper slow, don’t let go
We got nowhere else to go
Whisper slow, body close
Love’s the language no one knows

Outside rain begins to fall
Inside we don’t move at all
Every drop becomes our song
Holding on, holding on

Whisper slow, let it flow
Every heartbeat tells me so
Whisper slow, don’t let go
We got nowhere else to go
Whisper slow, body close
Love’s the language no one knows
Whisper slow… till the morning shows
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Whisper slow (Quiet Storm reload)

High on Clarity

​(Music begins: A lone, warm upright bass line, slow and deliberate. A shaker and brushed snare join in a lazy, 2 AM rhythm. A single, moody chord from a Rhodes piano hangs in the air.)

​(Verse 1)
Empty glass on the table
Used to fill it to the brim
Same old shadows on the wall
Funny, they don’t seem so grim
You always said I ran too hot
A fire looking for a flood
But the only thing I’m burning now
Is the badness in my blood.

​(Pre-Chorus)
Used to chase the burnin’ in my throat
Just to feel somethin’ real
Now the quiet is the only antidote
For a wound I let heal...

​(Chorus)
No chaser, no disguise
I’m drunk on truth tonight
Every flaw in stark relief
Found my savior in my grief
It ain't pretty, it ain’t kind
This sober state of mind
But no chaser, no disguise—
I'm high on clarity in my own eyes.

​(Verse 2)
Remember Johnny at the corner bar?
Swore he loved my kind of sad
Said I made disaster beautiful
The best he never had
He called me up the other night
Voice like whiskey, thick and low
I just said, "That girl you’re lookin’ for...
She packed up years ago."

​(Pre-Chorus)
Used to need the poison and the ache
Just to write a half-true line
Now I see the beauty in the break
And the victory is mine...

​(Chorus)
No chaser, no disguise
I’m drunk on truth tonight
Every flaw in stark relief
Found my savior in my grief
It ain't pretty, it ain’t kind
This sober state of mind
But no chaser, no disguise—
I'm high on clarity in my own eyes.

​(Bridge)
Some nights, the silence is a scream
For a half-forgotten, foolish dream
And the ghost of you still asks for one more round
He whispers I was better when I was breakin’ down...
But a queen don't need a broken throne
And I learned to dance all on my own.
​(Guitar Solo: A clean, hollow-body jazz guitar plays a melody that’s more blues than jazz—melancholy, but resolved. It doesn't show off; it tells a story.)

​(Chorus - Sung with more grit, more power)
No chaser! No disguise!
I’m DRUNK on truth tonight!
Every flaw in stark relief
Found my SAVIOR in my grief!
It ain't pretty, it ain’t kind
This SOBER state of mind
But no chaser, no disguise—
I'm high on clarity in my own damn eyes!

​(Outro)
(Music strips back down to just the upright bass and a soft Rhodes chord.)
Yeah... drunk on truth...
Costs more than the proof...
No chaser...
Just me.
(A final, resonant bass note hangs in the silence.)

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