The Mirage of Love Just the love that burns within VERSE 1 — THE MISTAKING We called it love, but it was need — Two hearts mistaking want for seed. You saw your light in someone's eyes, And thought their warmth could still your cries. You built a home from borrowed flame, Forgetting fire and love aren't the same. For when the spark turns into smoke, You meet yourself in what you broke. CHORUS The hand you held was just a glass, Reflecting back the love you'd pass. They didn't leave — they disappeared, When what you sought was never here. For love that clings is love in fear — True love's the space between, the sacred here. VERSE 2 — THE ACHE True love's not found in form or face, It's the space between, the sacred space. You lose, you ache, you fall apart — But pain's the teacher of the heart. It cracks the shell the ego made, So truth can bloom where dreams decayed. The mirror breaks, the mirage clears — And something older slowly appears. CHORUS The hand you held was just a glass, Reflecting back the love you'd pass. They didn't leave — they disappeared, When what you sought was never here. For love that clings is love in fear — True love's the space between, the sacred here. BRIDGE — STRIPS TO BARE TRUTH No lover lost, no soul to win, No mirror left to look within. The ruins clear, the silence speaks — And there you find the one who keeps. FINAL VERSE — And in the ruins, still and bare, You find the one who's always there. No lover lost, no soul to win — Just the love that burns within. OUTRO — SINGLE VOICE, DISSOLVING Just the love... that burns... within.
