Match In Our Ruins

[Verse 1]
You laugh at all my quiet fears
Finish every twisted thought
You say
“I get it
I’ve been here”
Like you’ve read the notes I never wrote
You see the cracks under my eyes
Point them out like constellations
We’re trading childhood alibis
Over late night confessions
[Chorus]
We’re a match in our ruins
Two kindred disasters
Every step we’re choosing
Could pull us in faster
You hold me like you’re holding
A gun with the safety off
Two broken hearts so fluent
We might be the perfect wrong (oh)
We’re a match in our ruins
[Verse 2]
You call me out when I disappear
But you vanish just as hard
We circle back through every fear
Like we’re tracing over scars
You say
“Don’t save me
I’m past saving”
I say
“Same
” and mean it too
We’re standing on a fault line shaking
Yet I still lean into you
[Chorus]
We’re a match in our ruins
Two kindred disasters
Every step we’re choosing
Could pull us in faster
You hold me like you’re holding
A gun with the safety off
Two broken hearts so fluent
We might be the perfect wrong (yeah)
We’re a match in our ruins
[Bridge]
If I stay
Will we burn through?
If I run
Will I haunt you?
Either way I lose a piece
Of the only one who sees me
[Chorus]
We’re a match in our ruins
Two kindred disasters
Every step we’re choosing
Just pulls us in faster
You hold me like you’re holding
A gun with the safety off
If loving you is losing
Then let’s lose it all at once
Two broken hearts so fluent
We might be the perfect wrong
We’re a match in our ruins (oh)
We’re a match in our ruins

Smoky alt-pop ballad with female vocals, soft electric piano and distant pads in the verses; chorus blooms with warm synth bass, roomy drums, and stacked harmonies that feel on the edge of breaking. Intimate, close-mic vocal in the verse, then a wider, urgent delivery in the hook. Subtle reverse swells and delayed guitar phrases underline the tension, bridge strips back to near a cappella before a final, haunting chorus., female vocals