Verse 1
The smoke’s still hanging in the hallway
Pictures curling off the walls
Your footsteps echo like a warning
But I don’t move at all
You said the fire was an accident
But you were holding the match
Now the ceiling’s dripping memories
I can’t take back
Pre-Chorus
I taste your name in the ashes
Every lie in the air
You don’t even look behind you
Like I was never there
Chorus
I’m standing in a burning house
Watching you walk out clean
You lit the match, you closed the door
Left the flames with me
I’m choking on the vows we made
As the floor caves in
You don’t feel the heat at all
But I’m dying where you’ve been
Verse 2
The couch we swore we’d grow old on
Is just a shadow now
Your laughter’s framed in broken glass
Still hanging around
I’d have carried you through the fire
If you’d asked me to stay
But you poured gasoline on “forever”
Then walked away
Pre-Chorus
The sirens sound like forgiveness
That I’ll never earn
You found your way to the daylight
I learned how to burn
Chorus
I’m standing in a burning house
Watching you walk out clean
You lit the match, you closed the door
Left the flames with me
I’m choking on the vows we made
As the floor caves in
You don’t feel the heat at all
But I’m dying where you’ve been
Bridge
Maybe I loved you like oxygen
Too much, too fast
Now I’m counting the seconds
Till the roof collapses
If this is freedom on your skin
Why does it hurt like sin?
Final Chorus
I’m still standing in this burning house
Calling out your name
You said love was supposed to hurt
But not this way
When the embers finally fade to black
And there’s nothing left to lose
You’ll remember I was burning
While I watched you choose
Outro
The fire’s out…
But so are we.
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