# Your Life for Mine [Intro] Thirteen years and I still feel it, one burning room, one promise made. Your dad told me: Protect his girl. Your life for mine. So I did. [Verse 1] I thought I'd buried that night, then you walked into my life. You asked, “Were you there?” Yeah. I was. I saved your mum from the flames, but I couldn't save him. [Chorus] Your life for mine. Your life for mine. That's the promise I've carried all this time. I'd take the bullet, take the blame. Your life for mine. But somewhere between protecting you and needing you beside me, I stopped knowing where the promise ended and love began. Your life for mine. [Verse 2] You told me to leave. So I disappeared just far enough to fool you. Then they kicked in your door. Broken glass. Blood on the floor. Same kind of gun that took your father. And every promise came roaring back. So I checked every window, memorised every car, stayed awake while you slept with one hand near the dark. You called it obsession. Maybe you were right. But every time I looked at you, all I could hear was— Your life for mine. [Bridge] Then you found out the truth. I gave your father to the police. I thought they'd keep him safe. They didn't. I didn't fire the bullet, but I led death to him. Then they offered you freedom: Give them me. You whispered, “They'll kill you.” “I know.” Your life for mine. One last time. But then you saw it. I wasn't only protecting you. I was punishing myself. [Final Chorus] Your life for mine. No. Not this time. No dead man's promise gets to own the rest of our lives. Your life for mine was never meant to become our whole damn life. If you stay, stay because you want me. Not because of him. Not because of guilt. Your life for mine? Let it die tonight. I'll choose your life because I love you. And if you choose mine— then this time, we both survive. [Outro] Your life for mine. No more. Your life with mine. Maybe that's what we were fighting for.
