[Intro – whispered, intimate, ghostly] Ay, cariño… You pay for love, you pray for touch, but the dead… we remember everything. [Verse 1 – slow, smoky, sensual] I wore red skin in candlelight, white hair falling through the night, silver eyes with no place to hide, men would stare and women smiled. Coins on tables, hands on doors, silk on bruises, knees on floors, some came hungry, some came cruel, some came crying like little fools. [Pre-Chorus – bitter, soft laugh] They called it love when the money was good, called me sweet when they understood, but love, real love, mi corazón, was waiting when the work was done. [Chorus – haunting, melodic, emotional] Ay, I loved for coin, I loved for bread, I loved to keep the wolves well fed, but one heart held me through the cold, one pair of arms was home to hold. Now silver eyes don’t sleep no more, I drift through walls, through locked old doors, I am gone, but I still see— the living walking free from me. [Verse 2 – darker, more rhythmic] She was like me, sharp and tired, soft hands, quick blade, eyes of fire, we kept watch when the nights turned bad, shared the little that we had. She knew my scars, I knew her lies, kissed the rain from both her eyes, we made a kingdom, small and poor, behind one broken rented door. [Pre-Chorus – aching, restrained] Then death came in with dirty shoes, took my breath and left no clues, I tried to scream, but no sound came— only my blood remembered my name. [Chorus – stronger, wounded] Ay, I loved for coin, I loved for bread, I loved to keep the wolves well fed, but one heart held me through the cold, one pair of arms was home to hold. Now silver eyes don’t sleep no more, I drift through walls, through locked old doors, I am gone, but I still see— the living walking free from me. [Bridge – ghostly, sparse, almost spoken over guitar] She moved on. Sí… she moved on. Found warm hands, found another dawn. And I hated it… and I blessed it… and I broke apart watching her laugh. Because what is love, eh? If not standing in the dark, letting someone else keep the morning? [Verse 3 – slow build, protective] So I haunt the rooms where danger drinks, I whisper names before she sinks, I scratch the glass, I kill the flame, I keep bad men from speaking her name. I watch the girls with painted eyes, boys with hunger, saints with lies, I know the alleys, know the price, know what mercy costs at night. [Pre-Chorus – sudden warmth] Then came a bird with a broken song, laughing bright where ghosts belong, Canary sang, and dios mío— for one small breath, I felt alive. [Chorus – fuller, more hopeful] Ay, she sings for bones, she sings for breath, she sings for love, she sings for death, for tavern smoke and chapel stone, for hungry hearts that walk alone. Silver eyes don’t sleep no more, but I don’t cry like before, when Canary sings, I almost see— a road for ghosts like me. [Verse 4 – powerful, devoted] Little bird, you smile too wide, hide your pain behind your pride, I know that trick, I wore it well, laughed like heaven, slept in hell. So I watch your door, I curse your fools, I break their luck, I bend their rules, touch my name and I turn cold— hurt my bird and lose your soul. [Final Chorus – dramatic, emotional, ghost choir backing] Ay, I loved for coin, I loved for bread, I loved the living, I loved the dead, one heart held me, one song stays, one little bird still lights my way. Silver eyes don’t sleep, mi amor, I drift through walls, through blood, through doors, I am gone, but I still see— the living, the dead… and who remembers me. [Outro – whispered, fading with soft guitar] Sing it again, Canary… soft, sí… like that. Let the dead come close. Let us remember warmth.
