The Escorts - I Can't Stand (to see you cry)

Expression of Affection

Expression of Affection (feat. Ralph Weeks)

Free and Easy

True Love Will Never Die

for the late-night drive where the bassline hits deep. this is not soft R&B; this is neo-soul.

press play. don’t ask questions.

🔥 produced by desyire
💋 after hours • bedroom energy • night-time vibes

Somebody Else Was in Here

“Mirrors / Tristesse” is a summer album about love, guilt, freedom and the versions of ourselves we try to outrun. Set against the heat of the Mediterranean coast, these twelve songs move through the first sparks of desire, the jealousy and mischief that follow, the quiet tragedies we don’t see until they’re already behind us, and the melancholy that becomes a permanent companion.

Built from a fusion of French chanson, chamber-folk and intimate indie storytelling, the album draws on the emotional architecture of Mirrors — self-interrogation, memory, the stories we perform — and carries it into the sun-drenched world of Bonjour Tristesse.

From the villa above the sea to the Parisian atelier, from the white suit on stage to the final acceptance of tristesse itself, these songs follow the arc of a summer that begins like a lie and ends like a lesson you never stop learning.

A coastal dream darkened by consequence — a sister album to Mirrors, and a chapter in its shadow.

He Symbolises Freedom

BAD HABIT HALO 

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Verse 1

You stroll in late with that holy grin,
Smelling like trouble and last night’s sin.
I’m readin’ scriptures in your crooked smile,
Tellin’ myself it’s just “this once” for a while.
Your shadow lands on my open door,
Funny how faith don’t matter anymore.
I light a match just to watch it fade —
You’re the sermon I shouldn’t have prayed.


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Pre-Chorus

But oh, you preach so sweet, I lose my ground…
I’m baptized every time you come around.
My common sense packed up and left —
Guess I’m the parish of your theft.


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Chorus

You got that bad habit halo, shining like gold,
Every warning whispered, I never stay cold.
Oh, you bless me dirty, you curse me divine —
And I keep kneelin’, drinkin’ your wine.
Baby, I know, I know…
You’re heaven I shouldn’t follow—
Still I fall under
Your bad habit halo.


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Verse 2

You pour your lies like a vintage red,
Smooth on the tongue, goes straight to the head.
I try to quit you like nicotine,
But you lace my lungs with what-might-have-been.
Your footsteps echo across my floor,
A hymn I swore I’d ignore.
Yet every vow I try to make
Melts like sugar in your wake.


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Pre-Chorus

You got a psalm for every bruise you write,
And I sing along like it’s my birthright…


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Chorus

You got that bad habit halo, shining like gold,
Every warning whispered, I never stay cold.
Oh, you bless me dirty, you curse me divine —
And I keep kneelin’, drinkin’ your wine.
Baby, I know, I know…
You’re heaven I shouldn’t follow—
Still I fall under
Your bad habit halo.


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Bridge 

Oh, it’s not a choice — just the route I always take.
You’re the headline sorrow I read when I wake.
I don’t call for mercy, haven’t in a while;
I just make a bed on the wreck of your smile.
You kept my heart where I can’t reach it no more—
Some locked-up drawer.
This ain’t love, sweetheart, just the quiet ache
Before the next heartbreak.


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Final Chorus 

That bad habit halo, dimmer than sin,
Still I crawl through the dark just to let you come in.
I bless the wrong hands, I shoulder the blame—
One more devoted fool in your losing game.
Baby, I know… I know…
You’re the weight tied deep to my shadow—
And I still sink under
Your bad habit halo.




BAD HABIT HALO

A Love That’s Real / No One Else But You

No One Else But You

Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation

To Love Someone (That Don't Love You)

Eccentric Soul: Omnibus

This Time

Lowell's 45s

Debbie Taylor - Let's Prove Them Wrong

I Choose You (formerly Blind Over You)

I Choose You

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