More Than This
Dark cinematic country-pop, 82 BPM, intimate breathy female vocals with a gritty aggressive outlaw-country attitude, emotional pop-country belts, acoustic guitar fingerpicking, pedal steel slide leads, sparse upright piano, resonator banjo accents, brushed drums, organic claps, stomp percussion, warm synth pads, subtle sub-bass, clean electric guitar swells, distant thunder ambience, tape hiss texture, radio static, cinematic pre-chorus lift, explosive full-band final swell.
More Than This
Dark cinematic country-pop, 82 BPM, intimate breathy female vocals with a gritty aggressive outlaw-country attitude, emotional pop-country belts, acoustic guitar fingerpicking, pedal steel slide leads, sparse upright piano, resonator banjo accents, brushed drums, organic claps, stomp percussion, warm synth pads, subtle sub-bass, clean electric guitar swells, distant thunder ambience, tape hiss texture, radio static, cinematic pre-chorus lift, explosive full-band final swell.
Lyrics
Intro
soft tape hiss, distant thunder, fingerpicked acoustic guitar
breathy whisper vocals
Mm…
We said it was casual…
So why does it hurt like this?
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Verse 1
half-spoken feminine vocals, sparse kick + sub bass pulse
We keep saying this ain’t serious
But your shadow’s all over my room
You leave your earrings on my dashboard
I leave pieces of me with you
Same old couch, same late-night smoke
You pull me close then let me go
And every time you disappear
I swear the silence cuts deeper here
You laugh like you know what you’re doing
Look at me like you almost stayed
And my hands got reckless ideas
My heart’s too scared to say
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Pre-Chorus
drums pull back, ambient synth swell
When you’re near me
Everything burns slow
You touch my sleeve
Like you don’t wanna go
But I read the room
And you hide your truth
While I keep falling harder for you
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Chorus
full-band explosion, distorted country-rock guitars, cinematic drums
I want more than this!
More than midnight kisses in the dark
More than this!
I want your whole heart, not just sparks
Give me the fire
Give me the hurt
Give me the kind of love that works
I hate the way your name still hits
Every time my phone lights up
More than this…
Yeah, I want more with you
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Post-Chorus
pedal steel echoes + heavy sub bass
More than smoke
More than touch
More than almost giving up…
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Verse 2
moody acoustic guitar + trap hats
You know my coffee, know my scars
Know the broken places in my heart
One text from you and my chest caves in
Like thunder rolling under my skin
We talk till morning like that’s enough
Like almost-love won’t ruin us
But every time you turn away
I feel the storm come back again
I keep acting like I’m cool with this
Like I don’t ache every time you leave
But this halfway kinda love
Ain’t halfway killing me
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Pre-Chorus
layered harmonies, heartbeat kick
You say my name
Like it means tonight
Then disappear
Before daylight
And I play tough
But heaven knows
This wildfire in me won’t let go
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Chorus
bigger guitars, emotional female belts
I want more than this!
More than midnight kisses in the dark
More than this!
I want your whole heart, not just sparks
Give me the fire
Give me the hurt
Give me the kind of love that works
I hate the way your name still hits
Every time my phone lights up
More than this…
Yeah, I want more with you
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Bridge
instruments strip back to piano + distant thunder
raw emotional vocals
Maybe I’m crazy wanting something real
From a love that disappears when I feel
You got my heart sitting in your hands
And I don’t think I can do “almost” again
So say it plain
Say it now
Or let this storm finally burn out
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Final Chorus
huge cinematic climax, full-band swell, layered harmonies
I want more than this!
More than bodies tangled up at night
More than this!
I wanna feel your love survive
Through every scar
Through every fight
Through every storm we tried to hide
No more halfway
No more running
No more pretending this means nothing
I want your soul where your body is
More than this…
More than this…
Yeah, I want all of you
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Outro
soft pedal steel, rain ambience fading
We called it casual…
But hearts don’t break casual…