(Verse 1)
The city breathes a neon sigh, the rain is black as wine.
I watch you from the shadows where the broken streetlights shine.
You're shaking hands with princes, you're discussing oil and steel
But every word they whisper is a wound I have to feel.
Your mind is full of ledgers, your heart's in some debate
While I'm just drowning here outside your golden palace gate.
(Pre-Chorus)
They don't see it, do they? The fire when you walk.
How the universe itself just trembles when you talk.
You are lightning bottled up, a king without a throne.
And this aching empty castle that I've built inside my own...
(Chorus)
Oh, I burn with jealousy for everything you touch.
It's never quite enough, it's all too much, too much, too much.
I'm jealous of the ocean when it kisses your view.
Of every single breath of air that's shared between me and you.
Give me back my solitude, give them back their art.
Just tear this whole world down until there's only you and my hungry heart!
(Verse 2)
I saw you by the harbor, where your polished yachts reside.
You stroked the teakwood lovingly, you stood there full of pride.
That wood should be my skin, those sails should catch my sighs.
Yet you were lost in blueprints underneath the cold grey skies.
You build cathedrals, monuments that pierce the drifting cloud.
While I'm the screaming silence in the middle of the crowd.
I'd trade Versailles for one dark night locked in your embrace.
To wipe that distant focus clean away from off your face.
(Pre-Chorus)
They don't see it, do they? The madness in your eyes.
A supernova waiting for its moment to arise.
You are thunder in a tailored suit, a diamond in the rough.
And God Himself would not be spared if He demanded half your love!
(Chorus)
'Cause I burn with jealousy for everything you own.
This hunger carves my ribs right down into the very bone.
I'm jealous of the symphonies that keep you up at night.
I'm jealous of the ghosts of lovers bathed in fading light.
Burn their empires, darling, let their towers fall apart.
Just stay inside these bleeding walls and listen to my starving heart.
(Breakdown Chorus)
Don't shake another hand! Don't answer one more call!
Tear down the iron curtain, let your gilded empire fall!
I want the man beneath the myth, the boy who used to bleed
Before he sold his shadow to the ones who plant the seed
Of glory and ambition... damn your legacy and gold!
Just suffocate me gently in your arms until I'm old!
Outro
Let the oceans swallow ships...
Let the pyramids turn dust...
Keep your crowns, your fleets, your whips...
In my jealousy I trust...
Every sunrise steals your face...
Every sunset hides your scars...
Grant me this one saving grace...
Pull me from the burning stars...
Into your ribcage... lock the door...
Be nothing else... forevermore...
My beautiful catastrophe... come lie... just sleep... within my core...
