Build You Up

(Style: folk, Moody alternative pop meets indie folk: fingerpicked acoustic guitar over boosted sub bass and minimal electronic percussion, male vocals with subtle Autotune sweetening. Verses stay intimate and close-mic’d; pre-chorus brings risers and low synth swells; chorus blooms wide with layered harmonies and a cinematic, dark atmosphere. Clean lead vocal rides above a deep pulse, with a final drop section that strips to bass and voice before a last, haunting hook., clean, indie folk, alternative pop)

Verse 1

I started soft with you

like morning light

like I could fix what was

already not right

You didn’t ask for it

but I still stayed

turned every silence

into something safe

I gave you calm

I gave you time

I gave you pieces

you never had to find

Pre-Chorus

And I thought love

was just that simple

Chorus (fast / spoken, building)

I build you up, let me drop

I hold you close, you let me rot

I build you up, let me drop

say you need me, then you’re not

I build you up, let me drop

I made you more than what you are

I build you up, let me drop

now I don’t know where you are

Verse 2

You got used to me

like air in the room

never noticed

what it cost to lose

I stayed too long

in the name of you

calling it love

like I had proof

Pre-Chorus

But love shouldn’t feel

like I’m disappearing

Chorus (fast / spoken, more intense)

I build you up, let me drop

I held the weight you couldn’t stop

I build you up, let me drop

you only loved me when I topped

I build you up, let me drop

now I’m the silence in your call

I build you up, let me drop

and you don’t even feel it all

Bridge (harsh, stripped, emotional break)

You never built me back.

Not once.

You just took.

And called it us.

I was a ladder.

You were a climb.

You left me shaking

every time.

Final Chorus (fast, chaotic)

I build you up, let me drop

watch it break, don’t even stop

I build you up, let me drop

you don’t care when I go off

I build you up, let me drop

now I’m nothing in your mouth

I build you up, let me drop

and I’m burning out

Outro (angry, final hit)

You don’t get to miss what you destroyed.