Sweetness Releases. Where the studio starts putting out its own.

Two people can know exactly how they feel and still never say it. You text every day. You are already choosing each other in a hundred small ways. But nobody names it, because naming it means risking it, and you have both been burned before.

Tell Me breaks the silence. It is one question, asked twice. Once by a man, once by a woman. Both sides of the same fear, because in real life both people are scared, and both are waiting for the other to go first.

The man goes first. He admits he waited too long, and that he waited because she matters more than he was ready for. Then he asks her to be his, and he asks with his history attached, because his heart has been here before and cannot do it again.

The woman does not answer softly. She has heard the talk about him and where he has been. She has been waiting for him to speak, because she feels the same, and she says so plainly. Then she asks him the same thing he just asked her, because being wanted does not cancel out being afraid.

It is a song for the talking stage that has gone on too long. For the person who has typed and deleted the same message four nights running. Send it to the girl you have been talking to for three weeks, and it says what you could not. Send it to that boy, and shoot your shot.