Primal 🔥
Some connections don't ask permission; they just ignite.
📖 Behind the Story
Some songs don’t ask for permission. They just take over.
The acoustic version of “Animal” by Neon Trees has this slow burn to it—stripped down, but still charged. And the image came fast: two people who aren’t thinking anymore. Just feeling. Just surrendering to whatever this thing is between them.
I wanted to write something that honored that part of us we don’t always talk about. The part that isn’t polite or careful. The part that paces like a caged animal when the right person walks into the room.
We spend so much of our lives tamed.
Following the rules, keeping things appropriate, making sure we don’t want too much or feel too loudly. But there are moments—rare ones—when all of that falls away. When you meet someone and your body knows before your brain catches up.
I’ve felt that.
The way your skin wakes up. The way the air gets heavier. The way everything else disappears and it’s just this—just heat, just presence, just two people who stopped pretending they weren’t drawn to each other.
A moment not about forever but about right now. The moment before you think too hard. The moment when instinct wins.
Sometimes that’s enough. Sometimes that’s everything.
💭 A Question for You
When’s the last time you let yourself feel something without overthinking it first?
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