Ashes Off My Skin

[Verse 1]
You slammed the door
Then my name
Into the drywall
Like it meant nothing
Glass on the floor
Shake in my hands
Your "sorry
Baby"
Dripping through the bandage
[Chorus]
You were broken glass
I kept holding
Cut to the bone
Just to feel something
You twisted truth
Till I believed it
But I’m washing you
Like ashes off my skin
Ashes off my skin (oh)
[Verse 2]
You hid your phone
Face down
Late nights
Said I was crazy
For reading red flags
Perfume that wasn’t mine
Lies in your eyes
I learned to flinch
Before you even raised your voice
[Chorus]
You were broken glass
I kept holding
Cut to the bone
Just to feel something
You twisted truth
Till I believed it
But I’m washing you
Like ashes off my skin
Ashes off my skin
[Bridge]
Now there’s a hand
That never tightens
A voice so soft
It doesn’t sharpen
He says my name
Like it’s a promise
Not a weapon
Not a warning (no more)
[Chorus]
You were broken glass
I kept holding
Cut to the bone
Now I feel something
He shows me love
I thought had left me
And I’m washing you
Like ashes off my skin
Ashes off my skin
[Outro]
You lose your power
When I stop bleeding
I walk out barefoot
But I walk out breathing
There’s light on my face
Where your shadow’s been
And I’m done with you
Like ashes off my skin

rock, Ethereal alt-rock ballad with female vocals; reverb-soaked clean guitars, airy pads, and a slow, deep kick-and-tom groove. First verse almost whispered over sparse chords, chorus swells with distorted guitar swells and stacked harmonies. Second verse adds low synth pulse and tremolo guitar, bridge drops to near-silence then erupts into a final soaring chorus with crashing cymbals and a long vocal ad-lib tail., ballad, sad, female vocals, emotional