Clinical Love Song

[Intro]

[tick tick]

Count the distance

Between your breaths

[Verse 1]

You fold your shirt

Like evidence

Every corner

Sharp with care

You choose your words

Like doses measured

Milligrams

Of “almost there”

[Chorus]

This is a clinical love song

Vitals stable

Something wrong

You hold me under fluorescent truth

Charting the end of me and you

This is a clinical love song

White coat calm while you withdraw

You sign your name

Then cut the line

Cold

Precise

You sterilize our time

[Verse 2]

You make the bed

To hospital standards

Tuck the sheets

Too tight to move

You touch my wrist

To time my pulse

Say

“You’ll adapt”

Then leave the room (oh)

[Chorus]

This is a clinical love song

Vitals stable

Something wrong

You hold me under fluorescent truth

Charting the end of me and you

This is a clinical love song

White coat calm while you withdraw

You sign your name

Then cut the line

Cold

Precise

You sterilize our time

[Bridge]

I bring you flowers

You log the date

You note my tremor

You call it “state”

I call it begging

You call it “phase”

You close the file

And look away (ah)

[Chorus]

This is a clinical love song

Vitals stable

Something wrong

You hold me under fluorescent truth

Charting the end of me and you

This is a clinical love song

Heartbeat flat in every bar

You wash your hands

Erase my name

Cold

Precise

You walk me from your heart

[Outro]

[tick tick]

Room still humming

But you’re gone