[Intro – Spoken Female, Hollow and Unapologetic] I gave you love. You gave me ashes. I burned myself to heal your lashes. I killed my light to give you peace. Embraced your dark. Sacrificed my sanity. You asked for more. --- [Verse 1 – Female Vocals, Seductive and Feral] Cigarette ash on silk sheets again Your touch like frost behind warm skin You said I was the only one who stayed So I became the storm that never strayed You left your pain in my throat And I swallowed until it choked Every night I wore your wounds Like perfume on broken wounds --- [Pre-Chorus – Male Vocals, Tired and Addicted] She held me like a crucifix But I was the one she couldn’t fix Her kiss was cold, her breath was fate She sang of love — and I took the bait --- [Chorus – Both, Searing and Symphonic] I gave you love. You gave me scars. We built a chapel from our wars I killed my light to help you sleep And sank beneath your shadows deep Devotion’s not a holy thing It’s ribbons tied to suffering You broke my name, rewrote my voice And called that ruin love by choice --- [Verse 2 – Male Vocals, Ragged and Real] You left lipstick on the blade Said “slice me open — I’m not afraid” We never touched without intent And every promise came and went You kissed my anger like it fed you And begged for fire until it bled through You called me cruel — I called it fair And still I reached when you weren’t there --- [Pre-Chorus – Female Vocals, Soft but Brutal] He held my ghosts like fragile glass But never asked what cracked me last He said my hurt was beautiful So I made him bleed — dutiful --- [Chorus 2 – Both, Chaotic and Intimate] I gave you light. You gave me lies. We danced through hell with open eyes I wore your grief along my spine And prayed for pain to feel divine I burned to heal your lashes You hollowed out my soul for ashes I took your hate and called it mine Now love and loss are intertwined --- [Bridge – Whispered, Over Instrumental Swell] (F) I loved you best when you were broken (M) I loved you most when you were cruel (F) I held your sins like sacred tokens (Both) And drowned in love we made the rule --- [Verse 3 – Both, Collapsing in Harmony] (F) I was the cure you feared too much (M) I was the wound you longed to touch (F) You held me close then turned to leave (M) And still I begged — and still you grieved (Both) We weren't meant to make it clean Love this dark must first be seen Not through vows or wedding rings But through the ash that silence brings --- [Final Chorus – Both, Exquisite and Exhausted] I gave you all. You left me bare. A throne of ruin, love in the air We lost ourselves, we never tried We just made pain look justified I gave you love. You gave me ashes I burned myself to heal your lashes I killed my light to give you peace Embraced your dark — released my sanity Now all that’s left is poetry --- [Extended Chorus Tag – Both, Quiet then Roaring] I was the echo in your scream You were the ghost in my dream We carved devotion into skin And stitched our love with safety pins You never wanted soft or clean I never asked what love could mean We just bled and called it sweet Two addicts lying in the heat --- [Outro – Spoken Female, Final Monologue] I didn’t need forever. I needed something that burned. And you — wildfire in a mouth of lies. But still, I took you in. Still, I laid down and said yes. Not to love. But to being yours Until there was nothing left of me but …this. A whisper. An echo. A poem never read twice. And I’d do it again. Even in lifetimes where you don’t come back.
