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Only You Set Me Off
When I first saw you
It was just a silhouette and heat
A stranger in the room
With something thick and sweet
But then you spoke
And the world got strange
Your mind lit up the dark
And nothing felt the same
I don’t even remember
Who I was before
Your laugh rewrote my blood
Your eyes unlocked the door
We sit too close
And my pulse betrays me
Just shoulder to shoulder
And you already have me
Your voice in my ear
Is more than sound
It’s a slow, soft fire
Spreading all the way down
Nobody does this to me but you
Nobody pulls me out of my skin
I don’t even have to touch you
To know how deep I’m in
Every time you get near
My whole body starts to confess
It’s not just want
It’s more than that
It’s you I obsess
You tell me about your world
Your games, your dreams
And I’m leaning closer
Than I ever mean
Not for your body
But for your soul
But my body still reacts
Like it already knows
A hug feels like too much
A goodbye lasts too long
Every little moment
Is quietly wrong
Wrong because I want more
Than I’m allowed to say
Right now I just sit beside you
And feel it all anyway
Nobody sets me on fire like you
Nobody makes me ache this way
I don’t even need your touch
To feel you all through me
Every glance, every smile
Hits me straight in the chest
I don’t crave anyone else
You’re the only one left
I don’t see faces
I don’t feel eyes
When you’re in the room
Everything else dies
It’s not just desire
It’s not just heat
It’s the way you exist
Right next to me
