Don't Reach for Me
A rich emo punk arrangement explodes with distorted, crunchy guitars, octave riffs, and feedback swells, all anchored by gritty, prominent bass. Drums punch hard with fast punk beats, dropping to stomping halftime breakdowns. The male lead shifts from whispered verses to soaring strained melodic screams, with massive gang chants and reverbed 'oooOOOooo' choirs wide in the mix. Subtle gothic pads add atmosphere beneath the intensity. Production is eerily clear, warm with light saturation, ad libs in background, and a super-wide stereo image.
Don't Reach for Me
A rich emo punk arrangement explodes with distorted, crunchy guitars, octave riffs, and feedback swells, all anchored by gritty, prominent bass. Drums punch hard with fast punk beats, dropping to stomping halftime breakdowns. The male lead shifts from whispered verses to soaring strained melodic screams, with massive gang chants and reverbed 'oooOOOooo' choirs wide in the mix. Subtle gothic pads add atmosphere beneath the intensity. Production is eerily clear, warm with light saturation, ad libs in background, and a super-wide stereo image.
Lyrics
Don’t reach for me
(I’m not made for understanding)
Don’t reach for me,
I’m not made for understanding…
You’ll only go crazy trying to get me.
Your hand half full and bleeding,
Only leads to me leaving.
I don’t want to play this game
Where we pretend we’re all okay,
Or stitch the quiet up with light,
While the dark keeps eating daylight.
Stop tracing maps across my scars
Stop lighting candles for the parts that are already dark
Don’t reach for me, don’t pull me from the tide
Don’t hold my wrists when I’ve already died inside
Stop wasting your breath trying to understand me
I don’t even get myself , so why are you still standing?
Don’t reach for me, let me drown tonight
Don’t reach for me, watch me bleed into the light
I don’t wanna read between the lines
The truth’s already sharp tonight
You call it love, I call it chains
Every kiss still tastes like smoke and shame
You keep your eyes like safes, watching coins fall slow,
You’re just a front row witness to the only world I know.
You want to save a story that keeps tearing at the seams,
You bring your pretty bandages and hand me broken dreams.
Why are you still here, just to watch me bleed out?
Applause for my collapse, then you whisper promises and doubt.
I am not a riddle solved by love
I am a sinkhole, swallowing the sky above
Don’t reach for me, don’t pull me from the tide
Don’t hold my wrists when I’ve already died inside
Stop wasting your breath trying to understand me
I don’t even get myself, so why are you still standing?
Don’t reach for me, let me drown tonight
Don’t reach for me, watch me bleed into the light
Leave the ropes on the floor
Leave the flashlights in their coats
Leave me with my crooked truths and all my heavy ghosts
If you keep tracing my fractures with your holy, hopeful hands
You’ll only drown with me, so go on, leave this harmless land
(leave me, leave me)
Why are you still here when you’ve seen enough?
Why clap for the end when the ending’s already blood?
Don’t reach!
Let me fall!
Don’t reach for me!
Let me drown!
Don’t reach for me, don’t drag me to your shore
Don’t ask me questions that I can’t answer anymore
Stop wasting your time on someone who won’t understand
I am broken glass and bleach and bones you can’t mend with hands
Don’t reach for me, let me drown tonight
Don’t reach for me, leave the lights and close the blinds
Why are you still here, just to watch me bleed out?
Don’t reach for me
(I don’t even get myself)
Don’t… reach… for… me…