[Intro — whispered over distant static and reversed piano]
Don’t come closer.
I rot from the inside out.
You shouldn’t love me.
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[Verse 1 — low, intimate vocals over trip-hop drums]
Curtains nailed shut at noon,
Let the dark choke out the room.
Every promise tastes like ash.
I’ve watched heaven sell its lies,
Seen devotion fade and die.
Now I wear my bitterness
Like a loaded vest.
I don’t believe in butterflies,
Just red flags dressed as paradise.
Every kiss is edged with knives.
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[Pre-Chorus — ambient guitars rising]
So don’t wrap your hands around my throat
And call it something sacred.
Don’t stare into these hollow eyes
And swear you’ll never break it.
I froze every nerve inside
That anyone could ever need.
I’m the kind that makes you bleed.
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[Chorus — huge cinematic hook with heavy guitars]
You shouldn’t love me,
I turn warm blood cold.
I take something pure
And leave it cracked and sold.
You shouldn’t touch me,
There’s rot beneath the skin.
Just a graveyard of promises
And ghosts that never end.
I hate love.
I hate how it makes you believe.
So save yourself—run.
You shouldn’t love me.
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[Post-Chorus — whispered female harmonies]
Love me.
Leave me.
Bleed me.
Watch it slip.
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[Verse 2 — darker rhythmic delivery]
Then you walked in half-destroyed,
Like survival was a choice.
Eyes like sleepless shattered glass.
You didn’t ask me to be clean,
You saw the wreck and stepped between.
One foot out, one fist tight.
You laughed when I said love was dead,
Said yours was buried in your chest.
When you showed me every scar,
They burned like distant stars.
Not because I loved the pain,
But because you stayed.
Every wound that tried to end you
Made me want to defend you.
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[Pre-Chorus 2 — shoegaze swell]
You pressed your freezing hands in mine
And somehow sparked a fever.
Two disasters in the dark.
You never tried to fix the mess,
You just said, “I’m still here.”
And I didn’t run.
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[Chorus — heavier, emotional]
You shouldn’t love me,
I turn warm blood cold.
But you crawled through the winter
And refused to let me fold.
You shouldn’t touch me,
But I’m begging you to stay.
You kissed every ugly truth
I tried to cut away.
I hate love,
But I crave what you do to me.
Maybe you should love me.
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[Bridge — cinematic breakdown]
I love the cracks beneath your grin,
The chaos caged deep within.
I love the fury in your tears,
The way you outlived all your fears.
Every scar your body shows
Is proof you fought and never froze.
I know I’m hard to hold,
My veins run ice, my hands stay cold.
But when your pulse collides with mine,
The frost begins to break in time.
You dragged a heartbeat
Out of something dead.
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[Breakdown — heavy riff]
Two dead hearts still beating.
Two lost souls still breathing.
If love’s a war, let it scar.
We’ll build from what we are.
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[Final Chorus — layered vocals]
You shouldn’t love me,
But I need you close.
You’re the only living fire
In this hollow ghost.
