Don’t kiss me like that
Jean-Paul VERNERET
1/5/2026

Don’t kiss me like that tonight
As if I’d already lost the light
Don’t lay on me, don’t start the fire
Of lips that lie with false desire
Don’t kiss me like a farewell
Before you’ve even dared to tell
Let me still breathe, let me stay
Without that hollow move you play

Bridge
Don’t kiss me just to disguise
The truth you cannot verbalize

Chorus
Don’t kiss me just to erase
What we failed to keep in place
Keep your lips if they will flee
I want truth, even if it breaks me
Don’t kiss me like it’s the end
Like a love too tired to mend

I want truth, even if it’s wrong
Not a goodbye dressed up so long
Don’t kiss me just to undo
All the things we never knew
Give me words, even misplaced
Not this silence we both embraced

Bridge
Don’t kiss me just to disguise
The truth you cannot verbalize

Chorus
Don’t kiss me just to erase
What we failed to keep in place
Keep your lips if they will flee
I want truth, even if it breaks me
Don’t kiss me if you’re gone away
Don’t pretend and try to stay

I’d rather hear a frozen truth
Than the sweet lie falling from you
Don’t kiss me for a last goodbye
I will read it in your eye
If it is over, whisper low
But don’t you kiss me like I don’t know

Bridge
Don’t kiss me just to disguise
The truth you cannot verbalize

Chorus
Don’t kiss me just to erase
What we failed to keep in place
Keep your lips if they will flee
I want truth, even if it breaks me