Verse 1
We used to run from sleep, afraid to close our eyes cause we couldn’t bear waking up alone our bodies close, but still I could feel the distance between us making this house feel cold
Pre-Chorus
We traded bruises like vows we never spoke
We broke to pieces long before our hearts went up in smoke
Chorus
This was never love, this was a bed of nails
Two arson hearts that liked the way it failed
You hit, I broke, we called it connection
Stayed for the war, blamed affection
We bleed, we stay, like something holy
Toxic tastes sweeter when you’re lonely
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Verse 2
Your sheets know more blood than comfort now
Mascara stains on our pillows from tears cried
Dirty fingerprints map every scar you hide
Each one a memory trying not to die
Pre-Chorus
We shattered mirrors so we wouldn’t have to see
That the worst parts of you look just like me
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Chorus
This was never love, this was a bed of nails
Two arson hearts that liked the way it failed
You hit, I broke, we called it connection
Stayed for the war, blamed affection
We bleed, we stay, like something holy
Toxic tastes sweeter when you’re lonely
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Bridge
We should have known better
We never learned to leave, we only learned to chase
A love that loves to hate, a kiss that leaves a taste
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Final Chorus (Realization)
This was never love, it’s a bed of nails
A horror we romanticized, a high that always fails
Disgusted by the hunger, sick of the devotion
Addicted to the violence, mistaking it for passion
We stayed to self-destruct, thinking pain was beauty
But waking up I see it — it’s rotten, it’s filthy
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Outro
I’m pulling off the blankets, stepping over wreckage
No final blow, no goodbye message
Just taillights burning through the blinds
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