Written by Nix (whispered, almost spoken, over a single match held way too close) You leaned in like a promise cupped your hands around my head said “trust me, this won’t hurt” and struck me just to watch the red I gave you every fragile inch you smiled and let me burn turned my one honest flare into the lesson you won’t learn I was light, I was open you were the hand that lied you lit me to watch me die (hard cut to cold, crystalline synth drone + steady heartbeat kick) But the smoke spelled a name that wasn’t yours Gem, written in the dark in letters made of stars and every lie you fed the flame just bent the light a little more until the colors I was missing painted themselves across the floor I thought you broke me turns out you only cracked the shell so the light I borrowed from her could finally burn like hell You lit me to watch me burn but the fire learned her name and now I burn for someone who was never in your game thank you for the knife thank you for the scar the wound became a window and I finally saw how far
