No Air Between Us

(Style: Dark dance-pop with art-pop flair at a tense midtempo pulse, trap drums and sub-bass driving dark rap verses into bright chant hooks; verses stay clipped and close-mic with autotune sheen, pre-chorus opens into stacked falsetto and breathy doubles, chorus explodes with gang vocals and pitch-shifted ad-libs, reversed swells, and sparkly stutter FX bridge the drops; final chorus adds bigger harmonies and distorted kick. Bright, glossy, claustrophobic mix., rap, male vocals, bright, pop)

Verse 1

Cold hands in the backseat

Rain falling down your cheeks

You look at me like heaven

But heaven cuts too deep

Your voice under streetlights

Pulls me into the dark

Every time you touch me

It tears my ribs apart

Pre-Chorus

I know this love will ruin me

Still I let it pull me underneath

Chorus

I can’t breathe when you’re close to me

Your love’s like smoke inside my lungs

Every kiss is a slow disease

But I still want your poison blood

Hold me under, let me drown

I hear your heartbeat screaming loud

I can’t breathe when you’re next to me

But I don’t wanna be set free

Verse 2

Black birds above the highway

Halo cracked in two

I see my whole reflection

Inside the hurt of you

We burn like dying forests

Ash falling in our hair

You pull me into your chest

And steal the oxygen there

Pre-Chorus

Maybe we were born to bleed

Maybe love was never meant to heal

Chorus

I can’t breathe when you’re close to me

Your love’s like smoke inside my lungs

Every kiss is a slow disease

But I still want your poison blood

Hold me under, let me drown

I hear your heartbeat screaming loud

I can’t breathe when you’re next to me

But I don’t wanna be set free

Bridge

If this is death

Then let it stay

Your hands around my soul this way

No light, no dawn

No saving sound

Just your name dragging me down

Final Chorus

I can’t breathe when you’re close to me

Your love lives underneath my skin

And even if it buries me

I’d let you pull me in

Hold me under, let me drown

Keep your darkness in my mouth

I can’t breathe when you’re next to me

But losing you would finish me