BLACK ICE

Intro (low, distant)

Don’t confuse the calm

With mercy.

Verse 1

You step closer, breath held tight

Like you’ve done this every night

I don’t move, I don’t respond

I let the silence carry on

You call my distance something cruel

Like I owe you something warm

But I don’t break the rules I set

I don’t soften in the storm

Pre-Chorus

You feel safe ‘cause I don’t fight

That’s how you lose your balance

Chorus

I’m black ice

Under skin

You don’t see me

Till you’re in

I don’t burn

I don’t bend

You don’t fall

By accident

Verse 2

You offer truth like it’s a key

Like I’ve been waiting to be freed

I don’t need what you confess

I don’t trade calm for tenderness

You ask me where this could go

Like there’s something left to name

But I don’t build on maybe’s

I let you slip and take the blame

Pre-Chorus

You lean in like I’ll be kind

I just stay where you can’t find

Chorus

I’m black ice

Cold, unseen

You feel steady

Till you lean

I don’t chase

I don’t plead

You don’t fall

I release

Bridge (very dark, restrained)

I don’t haunt you

I don’t stay

You keep replaying what I didn’t say

It’s not my touch you can’t replace

It’s the way I never change

Final Chorus (lower, heavier)

Black ice

No sound

You don’t feel it

Till you’re down

No regret

No disguise

I don’t look back

I don’t apologize

Outro (whispered)

I didn’t push you.

You stepped

Too far.