[INTRO - piano pulse, low strings, faint digital shimmer, restrained rock undercurrent]
It started in a glowing window
Where names would blink like presence
Avatars shifting in the corners
Like we were something different there
[VERSE 1 - tight rhythmic phrasing]
You were there in blinking messages
That never really slept
I learned the weight of waiting
For everything you left
We traded changing versions
Of who we said we were
Avatars in shifting colors
That made it feel secure
I stayed inside your orbit
Through pages left undone
Like I could read you deeper
Than anyone had done
[PRE-CHORUS - repetition, tension building]
I thought being wanted meant being kept
I thought that was enough
I thought being wanted meant being kept
Like that was love
But every small connection
Started asking more from us
[CHORUS - rock pulse, strings swell, piano driving]
Stay online, stay close, don’t leave
That’s what it turned into
Like every hour I was giving
Was the proof I gave to you
And I didn’t see it forming
Till I couldn’t step away
Like wanting me became a place
I was learning I had to stay
[VERSE 2 - claustrophobic detail]
You changed the way you looked online
Like it meant something real
I watched each shifting version
Like it taught me how to feel
We traded small digital pieces
That never meant much then
But every little item
Became a way to bend
And friends became distractions
From a world I couldn’t leave
Like everything outside your window
Was harder to believe
[PRE-CHORUS - tightening loop]
I thought being wanted meant being kept
I thought that was love
I thought being wanted meant being kept
Until it wasn’t enough
And every pause between us
Started feeling like a pull
[BRIDGE - stripped, emotional fracture]
I thought being wanted meant being kept
But it started closing in
Like every quiet moment
Was something I couldn’t win
I thought I was being chosen
But I was being held
Inside a space that never let me
Be anywhere else as well
[FINAL CHORUS - release, clarity]
Stay online, stay close, don’t leave
But I wasn’t really there
Just a pattern I was folding
Into something I couldn’t share
And I finally saw the difference
Between holding and control
When staying meant disappearing
From my own self, whole
[OUTRO - piano fades, faint digital echo dissolves]
I left the window open
And let the avatar fade