[Intro] There was a fire, no one named. [Verse 1] I learned to breathe in quiet smoke, like it was oxygen. Shadows crawling up my throat, teaching me to bend. Fingers tracing empty walls, looking for a sign. Every ember I tried to hide was lighting up inside. [Pre-Chorus] You stepped into the silence, like you always knew the air. [Chorus] I was burning, can you hear me? I was lost inside the flame. You just looked and called it nothing, you just gave my pain a name. I was turning into cinders, trying not to disappear. I was burning, can you hear me? Did you ever want me here? [Verse 2] I spoke in ashes and broken heat, in colors you dont see. Every word a fragile glow, you never let it be. You were standing in the doorway, like a stranger to the scene. Calling ruin what was left of something in between. [Bridge] Maybe I was never meant to burn this quietly. Maybe all the fire in my chest was just a way to speak. And you never listened, you never came near. You just watched me fading and called it disappear. [Final Chorus] I was burning, now you hear me, but theres nothing left to save. All thats left is just the echo of the girl you couldnt face. I was screaming through the silence, I was right there in the flame. Now the fire has turned to shadow, and you dont even say my name. [Outro] You called it ashes, but it was me.
