Platonic Fidelity (Extended 2)

[Intro: Spoken] They ask why I'm still standing here. No ring. No paper. Just you. See, society tells us that if you're not building a home with a lover, you're just waiting in a lobby. But they don't see the vault. They don't understand the fidelity in a secret kept. The way I block my calendar like a vow. We're out here navigating the dark, two bodies against the current, and just because I don't touch you like that, doesn't mean my loyalty isn't absolute. This is the blood and the bone. The history. My non-binary heart finds its rest in our unspoken pact.

[Verse 1] Concrete walls keep the world away

But your shadow's always in my room

Heavy locks on the words we say

I'm the ghost inside your afternoon

Check the screen for a lifeline call

See the hours that I've carved for us

I won't let your spirit start to fall

In a city built on broken trust

[Pre-Chorus] No scorecard kept on the bedroom floor

I'm opening every heavy door

Let 'em drift if they gotta go

But you're the only anchor that I know

[Chorus] This is deeper than a marriage bed

This is every single word we said

Loyalty when the lights go down

I'm the one who's always gonna stay around

Yeah I'm faithful to the end of time

Everything of yours is also mine

Everything is fine

Staying on the line

[Post-Chorus] Ooh

Staying on the line

Ooh

Solid every time

[Verse 2] Don't you fear the distance or the miles

I'm the keeper of the way you used to be

Send a photo of the morning smiles

Virtual tour of everything you see

If they speak your name with poison breath

I'll be there to shut the vision down

Faithfulness is life instead of death

Wears the weight of an iron crown

[Pre-Chorus] No scorecard kept on the bedroom floor

I'm opening every heavy door

Let 'em drift if they gotta go

But you're the only anchor that I know

[Chorus] This is deeper than a marriage bed

This is every single word we said

Loyalty when the lights go down

I'm the one who's always gonna stay around

Yeah I'm faithful to the end of time

Everything of yours is also mine

Everything is fine

Staying on the line

[Bridge] Explicitly I'm yours

Unlock the heavy doors

No threat from anyone you choose to love

I'm the heaven and the earth and everything above

Call me when you're burnt out and your soul is thin

I'm the place where all your heavy days begin

[Chorus] This is deeper than a marriage bed

This is every single word we said

Loyalty when the lights go down

I'm the one who's always gonna stay around

Yeah I'm faithful to the end of time

Everything of yours is also mine

Everything is fine

Staying on the line

[[Outro] Spoken/Inspirational]

Listen. To whoever is hearing this while feeling alone in their devotion—hold the space. You are not a placeholder. Your platonic commitment is a revolution. Don't let the "drift" scare you into burning your bridges. When life gets chaotic, when they move away, or when they lose themselves in someone else, just be the constant. Be the history they can return to. You're building something eternal. You are the safety. You are the family. Stay

[Verse 3] Midnight on the highway, you're three states away

But I still feel your heartbeat through the static in between

I'm the one who answers when the floor gives way

First one at the hospital, last one to the scene

Let your new world spin, I'll be the North Star glow

Don't need a title to know exactly who I am

When they ask me who I love I tell 'em that I know

I love the one who held my hand through all the damning

[Pre-Chorus] They can keep their fairytales and their rings

I've got fingerprints on everything

You're my family, say it loud and clear

I'll be your witness every single year

[Chorus] This is deeper than a marriage bed

This is every single word we said

Loyalty when the lights go down

I'm the one who's always gonna stay around

Yeah I'm faithful to the end of time

Everything of yours is also mine

Everything is fine

Staying on the line

[Post-Chorus] Ooh

Solid every time

Ooh

I'm still on the line

[Verse 4] Sundays on the phone, we talk about the fear

The move was lonely, I admit the nights get cold

But I'd never trade the miles to disappear

You kept the roots alive while I was gone and bold

Snail mail on your doorstep, handwritten proof

A piece of my new city folded in the words

Call me when the weight of everything gets loose

I'll be there before the echo of the birds

[Pre-Chorus] No scorecard kept on the bedroom floor

I'm opening every heavy door

Let 'em drift if they gotta go

But you're the only anchor that I know

[Chorus] This is deeper than a marriage bed

This is every single word we said

Loyalty when the lights go down

I'm the one who's always gonna stay around

Yeah I'm faithful to the end of time

Everything of yours is also mine

Everything is fine

Staying on the line

[Bridge] Tell your partner that I'm not a threat

Tell your mother that I'm family too

I'll be standing where the pavement's wet

With the truth I never learned from you

I don't count the times you don't reply

I just send the signal anyway

Love is not a scoreboard in the sky

It's the patience that I keep for Sunday

[Spoken Interlude] (soft, breathy)

And maybe nobody wrote a contract for us

No witness, no signature, no notary

But I got receipts in the middle of the night

When you couldn't find the words

I was the word

When the city swallowed you whole

I was the jawbone

That's not romance

That's something rarer

That's the thing they don't have a name for yet

[Verse 5] Gritty nights, the basement lows

I've seen you shattered in the morning glow

I held the pieces while the neighbors slept

And never told a soul the things I kept

That's the vow, that's the sacred hush

The quiet way I always knew the crush

Of the secrets buried underneath your skin

I'm the vault that nobody gets in

[Pre-Chorus] They can take the spotlight, take the fame

I'll be nameless just to guard your flame

Let 'em wonder who I am to you

I'm the honest answer, tried and true

[Chorus] This is deeper than a marriage bed

This is every single word we said

Loyalty when the lights go down

I'm the one who's always gonna stay around

Yeah I'm faithful to the end of time

Everything of yours is also mine

Everything is fine

Staying on the line

[Post-Chorus] Ooh

Staying on the line

Ooh

Solid every time

[Outro: Spoken] And when the seasons turn themselves to dust

When the new jobs, the new loves, the new lives come and go

I will still be here

Counting nothing

Owning nothing

Just holding everything

You are not a phase

You are not a placeholder

You are the monument

The one I keep building with my patience

Come find me when the world gets too loud

I'll be the silence you can trust

I'll be the breath

I'll be the bone

Still yours

Still here

Forever

The faithful one