silk & sirens

You don't scream
You sing
You don't scream
You sing
You don't scream

You taste like midnight wine and regret
Lipstick ghost on my silhouette
Every time I swear I'm finished
You pull me back with a whisper threat

You wear your halo like runway gold
But your demons glitter when they unfold
You kiss me warm, you leave me cold
Now I'm trembling in sheets we hold

Your love na silk with hidden knives
Smooth on skin but it splits my sides
Every red flag I redefine
Just to say you still mine

You say: Baby, don't overthink
Why you smiling as the ship dey sink?
Now my heart don learn to float
In an ocean where it shouldn't swim

And I know say this thing no righteous
But your touch dey feel so priceless
Anytime I try move lifeless
You pull me back like gravity

You be silk and sirens
Soft like heaven, loud like violence
I know you poison
I know you fire

But I still crawl back crying
Silk and sirens
You love me slow then leave me dying
Even when you break my spine

I still dey call you mine
Why I still dey call you mine?
You get the kind of beauty
Wey fit rewrite scripture lines

Make a strong man drop his armor
Then confess his darkest crimes
Your silence louder than gunshots
Your arms fine in brace for war

One minute you dey beg for forever
Next minute you close the door
You say love no be possession
But you cage me with affection

If another girl just breathe near me
You launch full investigation
But you dey flirt with temptation
Call am harmless conversation

I dey choke on explanation
Call am miscommunication
I dey lie to myself in pieces
Day one dey the chaos ceases

But addiction no get releases
Only cure na the disease
You be silk and sirens
Sweet at first but full of violence

I know you breaking me in silence
Still I stay compliant
Silk and sirens
Your love na beautiful tyrant

Even when you leave me dying
I still dey call you mine
If loving you na lesson
Why I still repeat am?

If loving you na prison
Why I still defend am?
You say: Baby, choose peace
When na you start the riot

Still I kneel at your doorstep
Like worship in the night