**[Intro]** *(ambient, haunting clean vocals)* We built a home from promises... Now all that's left... Is dust... --- **[Verse 1]** Every color starts to fade Every word is wearing thin We were fire in the darkness Now we're strangers underneath our skin You reached for someone I can't be I held on to a memory We're standing in the same room But a thousand miles apart --- **[Pre-Chorus]** *(clean vocals)* I watched forever lose its name While we smiled through all the pain Love doesn't always die in flames... Sometimes it slowly decays... --- **[Chorus]** *(massive melodic chorus)* **WHEN LOVE DECAYS!** Every color turns to grey Every promise slips away I can feel your heartbeat fade As love... decays **WHEN LOVE DECAYS!** Every touch becomes a ghost Every "always" matters most We became what we both feared A love that disappeared --- **[Verse 2]** Your eyes don't carry home anymore They're windows that I can't see through We're speaking words without a meaning Trying to revive what we already knew Silence echoes louder now Than every "I love you" we said The flowers never died at once They withered one petal at a time --- **[Pre-Breakdown]** *(building)* Tell me... When did forever... Become goodbye? --- **[Breakdown]** *(crushing, screamed)* **WATCH IT ROT!** **WATCH IT DIE!** **WE KEPT BREATHING THE SAME AIR...** **BUT WE STOPPED FEELING ALIVE!** No betrayal... No violent end... Just two hearts... That forgot how to beat together! --- **[Bridge]** *(soft, emotional clean vocals)* Maybe love was never meant To survive every storm Or maybe we just forgot How to keep each other warm --- **[Final Chorus]** *(bigger, layered vocals)* **WHEN LOVE DECAYS!** Even memories lose their light Fading softly into night I still whisper your name Though nothing feels the same **WHEN LOVE DECAYS!** Some endings never make a sound They simply stop being found And all that's left to save... Is the lesson love once gave --- **[Outro]** *(ambient piano and strings)* We didn't break... We just slowly... Became... Strangers.
