IDWBH

(Music: A single, clean, melancholic guitar riff. A slow, atmospheric synth pad fades in)

(Verse 1)
I`ve been wearing a mask that they glued to my skin
Playing a role that I never chose to begin
They handed me lines, said «deliver them right»
But I`m choking on words that I can`t even write
I`ve been dancing on strings that they pulled from above
But the puppet is pretending to love

(Pre-Chorus)
And I`m so tired of the race
For a love that I can`t even taste

(Chorus)
I don't want to be your answer, your final page
I don't want to be the noise that fills your stage
I just want to be still, in the quiet of your eyes
I just want to be held without alibis
Don't love me for my future, don't love me for my past
Love me for the moment that's never meant to last
I just want to be happy
I just want to be happy — and that's enough

(Verse 2)
And I`ve been wrestling the demon in my head
Trying to convince it that I`m not dead
`Cause I don`t know the language of a gentle touch
This heart is a wasteland, but I`m asking so much

(Pre-Chorus)
I`m so tired of pretending to shine
When all that they love is a borrowed design

(Chorus)

I don't want to be your answer, your final page
I don't want to be the noise that fills your stage
I just want to be still, in the quiet of your eyes
I just want to be held without alibis
Don't love me for my future, don't love me for my past
Love me for the moment that's never meant to last
I just want to be happy
I just want to be happy — and that's enough

(Bridge)
(Music drops to a soft, atmospheric piano or a single repeating clean note)

Teach me how to love the way the sun loves the dawn
Without a condition, just because it's drawn
I'm so tired of the transaction, the give and the take
For a love that's real, for my own soul's sake
(Silence)

(Breakdown / Outro)
(The band kicks in with full force: crushing, downtuned guitars, double-bass drums, and raw, screamed vocals)
I DON'T WANT TO BE THE BEST!
(Music pulls back slightly)
I just want to be...
(The music swells again)
JUST WANT TO BE LOVED!
(The instrumentations becomes chaotic and desperate)
FOR NOTHING!
FOR NO ONE!
JUST BECAUSE!
(The music cuts abruptly, leaving only a faint, ringing feedback)