Final scene playlist. we’ve been through the tension, anger, memory and disregard so far. It’s time for the softer parts. Their history of passionate love. Think bodies that remember how to rumba, how this word or touch breaks walls that they’ve been fighting through in the past two playlists. Think about those stares that don’t need words but still send shivers. Or accepting the fact that you can’t run from this moment, and some of it feels familiar. In the good way you can’t admit to, because the other one has to say it first.

So, how do you survive a dance that requires closeness when at least one of you wishes you’d never touch again? Because we have seen the chemistry is still there. The fire may have gone out for a while, but the sparks are showing. It could catch with the simplest thing, except, they are different people now. So it’s the same sensual fire, same intense feelings, but they could also be strangers.

One of them wants what they had, including the answer to why it stopped. The other? Peace and stability was how they coped with the loss of the relationship, so diving back in is a big no. Except, he’s very destabilizing, especially since they are still dancing both in body and verbally.

How is she feeling? Behind the mask of wit and skills, heated by anger? What has she been silently screaming all the years in between the last time and this time? Say Something is the whole feeling of her side. That I tried, I swallowed it, and did what I had to do for myself, to keep going on without.

Say Something – A Great Big World, Christina Aguilera

Why is he keeping it light, even if he’s hitting some digs? Because he never forgot she’s a runner. She’d shut him out with steel walls if he doesn’t tease his way around this dancing maze. He’s looking for the cracks, not trying to take them down yet. He just wants to know that under all that anger is something else, something he can build from. If not, he might have made a mistake. But, if she’s still his last dance of the night? This torture will be worth it. Also? Sway speaks to a softer version of why she has always been a muse to him.

Sway – Michael Buble

But if he could say anything he wanted? Even though it’s not rock, it would be this song. For her. Saying everything he hasn’t been able to say for a while. His wishes for the future, his knowledge of her, even his side of their memories. He’d say he’d still care for her, if only she gave him that hint, that opening, that touch of a hand that feels like love again.

Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran

Where are they during this? They have hope, for different outcomes, but we know they have been syncing back up. Even if she’d deny it, he’s watching for it. So of course the song of this moment means different things to them both. For her? He’s been that bittersweet thing. The best moments of her story, but also the most hurtful. So she thinks she wants out of this. This moment, these memories, the feelings that are tearing her to pieces. But him? She’s always been his way out. He’s tried other coping habits, but nothing makes him feel alive like when she’s in his arms, fighting with him, engaging his soul in a way that has been shut off for years. And neither one of them is very good at fighting their fears here.

Lovely – Billie Eilish ft. Khalid

So, how does this dance end? I wouldn’t call it a second chance, there’s too much left unsaid. But the connection still holds, still has heat and reactions. So it’s not the end. The only tactic left when she gives in and disappears before they continue? Make you feel my love… so she knows it wasn’t fake. It wasn’t just for a time. It was a forever that got interrupted and, as When Harry Met Sally teaches us, when you figure out your forever, you want it to start right now. Even if he has to start all over again from the beginning. After all, she trusted him to lead their dance. She just doesn’t trust him with her heart, yet…

Make You Feel My Love – Adele