Warmer In The Dark

[Verse 1]
You come in late with a mouth full of smoke
I see your hands, but I know what they wrote
You leave me bruised in the shape of your name
Then vanish clean like it all was a game
Your shadow stays by the heel of your shoe
It knows how to hold what you never do
It waits in the hall when you turn to go
Warm on the wall where the broken things glow
[Pre-Chorus]
I learned your face, I learned your trace
I learned the cold behind your grace
But in the dark, in the dark, in the dark
Something stays soft when you leave a mark
[Chorus]
Warmer in the dark
Warmer in the dark
Your shadow loves me more
Than you ever did before
Warmer in the dark
Warmer in the dark
It never cheats, never lies
It just stays by my side
[Verse 2]
You wear your charms like a knife in a sleeve
Talk so sweet while you strip and leave
I watched you fold every promise thin
Like cheap lace caught in a heavy wind
But that black shape at the edge of the room
Knows every crack and the shape of my gloom
It leans on the wall when the music cuts
Like it’s been waiting to patch me up
[Pre-Chorus]
I learned your face, I learned your trace
I learned the cold behind your grace
But in the dark, in the dark, in the dark
Something stays soft when you leave a mark
[Chorus]
Warmer in the dark
Warmer in the dark
Your shadow loves me more
Than you ever did before
Warmer in the dark
Warmer in the dark
It never cheats, never lies
It just stays by my side
[Bridge]
Let the room go black
Let the pulse come back
I don’t need your name
I don’t need that flame
I take the outline
I take the quiet line
If love is a lie
Then stay where you hide
[Final Chorus]
Warmer in the dark
Warmer in the dark
Your shadow loves me more
Than you ever did before
Warmer in the dark
Warmer in the dark
It never cheats, never lies
It just stays by my side
Warmer in the dark
Warmer in the dark
I can live with that
If that’s the closest I’ll get to love

Gothic nightclub anthem with heavy synths and drum & bass propulsion, female vocals, tense verses over shadowy bass pulses, pre-chorus strips to whispery pad and ticking hats, chorus opens with towering saws and a jagged hook, doubled lead with ad-lib echoes and gang-style backing on the anchor phrase, reverse swells and vinyl crackle into each drop, bright neon-gloom mix with punchy low end and icy top, female vocals, emotional