Flame For Someone Else

[Verse 1]
I saw you in love
And it wasn’t me
Your eyes lit up
Like they used to
Only
Not when you look at me
Not anymore
Twenty-five years
Falling through the floor
[Chorus]
What am I supposed to do with that?
With the picture in my head I can’t roll back
You
With that smile I used to claim
Holding someone else inside our flame
Tell me how I’m meant to stand and stay
When the fire we built just looks my way
Then turns
Like I’m a stranger on the shelf
That flame returned
But it’s burning for someone else
[Verse 2]
We learned each wrinkle
Each hidden scar
Shared every secret
In the dark of this house
There’s coffee in our cups
But it tastes like doubt
Your laughter in the kitchen
Shuts my heartbeat out
[Chorus]
What am I supposed to do with that?
With the picture in my head I can’t roll back
You
With that smile I used to claim
Holding someone else inside our flame
Tell me how I’m meant to stand and stay
When the fire we built just looks my way
Then turns
Like I’m a stranger on the shelf
That flame returned
But it’s burning for someone else
[Bridge]
Do you remember
White dress
Shaking hands?
The promise that we’d stay
When we both lost our plans
I’m still right here
In this same gold ring
You’re somewhere drifting
On a younger dream (oh)
[Chorus]
What am I supposed to do with that?
With the pieces of a life we can’t get back
You
With that smile I used to claim
Holding someone else inside our flame
Tell me how I’m meant to love myself
When the best of me lives with someone else
Our forever sits in pictures on the shelf
That flame returned
But it’s burning for someone else

pop, Slow, intimate pop ballad with female vocals over soft piano and warm pad swells; verses close-mic and fragile, subtle finger-snap groove entering by the first chorus. Chorus opens with airy harmonies and a low synth bed, adding gentle toms and reverse cymbals to lift emotion. Bridge strips back to near a cappella, then final chorus blooms with stacked vocals and a swelling string line for a cathartic, aching climax., slow, sad