Intro
Low light, late hour
Your name tastes like smoke now
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Verse 1
I gave you silence like a shelter
Gave you space inside my ribs
You said love like it was holy
Like a vow you’d always live
But devotion turned to distance
Like a shadow in the rain
I kept reaching through the quiet
You kept drifting just the same
Now the room still holds your echo
Like a hymn that lost its choir
Every memory a candle
Every candle still on fire
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Pre-Chorus
I carried you like a prayer in my lungs
Now every breath feels wrong
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Chorus
You left your ghost in my bloodstream
Every promise still runs deep
I taste your name in the silence
Even when I try to sleep
I was built like an altar
You were built like a flame
And the worst part of loving you
Is I’d burn the same
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Verse 2
You wore my heart like armor
Like a shield against the cold
But every time I got closer
You let pieces of it fold
I kept bleeding out forgiveness
Like a river in the dark
You kept striking every match
Just to see another spark
Now the quiet feels heavier
Than the words we never said
Like a war still raging softly
In the chambers of my head
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Pre-Chorus
You called it love when it hurt this way
I called it faith when I chose to stay
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Chorus
You left your ghost in my bloodstream
Every promise still runs deep
I taste your name in the silence
Even when I try to sleep
I was built like an altar
You were built like a flame
And the worst part of loving you
Is I’d burn the same
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Bridge (Sleep Token style escalation)
If devotion is a weapon
Then you carved me to the bone
If surrender was the answer
Why am I here alone
I let you inside my ruin
Let you carve your name in stone
Now the temple that I built for you
Is the place I burn alone
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Final Chorus
You left your ghost in my bloodstream
Every vow still cuts deep
Every scar says your language
Every night steals my sleep
I was built like an altar
You were built like a flame
And I hate that I know
I would burn again
