[Intro]
Soft rain on steel
Your name on my tongue
A ghost in the armor
Where our love once clung
[Verse 1]
You traced a heart on my old leather bracer
Swore you would fight every battle beside me
Now that same hand is a shadow in daylight
Reaching through memories that slice me
I kept your ring on a chain like a standard
Holding it high over ruins and ashes
Every victory just echoes your absence
Every cheer cuts deep and then passes
[Chorus]
Love hurts
Like armor over bleeding skin
Every step
It cuts again
Love burns
A candle in a shattered shrine
I am yours and you’re not mine
Love hurts
Love hurts
[Verse 2]
You sing my name in the dark of the chapel
Your voice like glass in the throats of the choir
You light a flame for the vows that we fractured
Praying to bury this tired desire
You read my letters with trembling fingers
Smudged ink and salt on the pages you’re holding
Every “forever” we carved into margins
Crumbles to dust in the silence unfolding
[Chorus]
Love hurts
Like armor over bleeding skin
Every step
It cuts again
Love burns
A candle in a shattered shrine
I am yours and you’re not mine
Love hurts
Love hurts
[Bridge]
[Tempo drops
Strings and harp swell]
[Male]
If I had one more dawn with you (just one)
I’d trade my glory
Lay down my pride
[Female]
If I could reach across this distance
I’d tear the stars from the grieving sky
[Both]
We were a promise on trembling lips
We were a prayer the heavens missed
Now every heartbeat
Every word
Is just a blade
And it still hurts
[Chorus]
Love hurts
Like armor over bleeding skin
Every step
It cuts again
Love burns
A candle in a shattered shrine
I am yours and you’re not mine
Love hurts
Love hurts
[Outro]
[Choir swells
Then fades]
Two rings on a chain
Two candles that died
One story in ruins
Two souls that still cry