Mistaken love

[Intro: Clean arpeggiated electric guitar with soft reverb]

[Verse 1]
December wrapped us in streetlight gold
Your laugh like bells the cold couldn’t hold
We traced our names in window fog
Said this warmth would never stop

[Pre-Chorus]
Counted down the hours slow
Felt the whole world shrink to just us two
Didn’t know the snow would melt
And take your voice along with it

[Chorus]
WE WERE A FLAME IN CHRISTMAS AIR!
BUT FIRE BURNS WHAT IT CAN’T REPAIR!
You swore you’d stay past midnight chimes
Now I’m counting cracks in better times

[Verse 2]
January turned sharp at the seams
Your eyes avoided my goodbyes
We spoke in sighs and half-truths
While the calendar bled into February blues

[Pre-Chorus]
I kept folding every silence
Like a letter never sent
Hoping stillness meant you cared
Not that you were already gone

[Chorus]
WE WERE A FLAME IN CHRISTMAS AIR!
BUT FIRE BURNS WHAT IT CAN’T REPAIR!
You swore you’d stay past midnight chimes
Now I’m counting cracks in better times

[Bridge: Gritty guitar tones, punchy drums fade to sparse bassline]
(whispered)
February froze the words I saved
For a spring that never came

[Verse 3]
Summer arrived with heavy heat
You packed your coat though it’s July
Said, “It wasn’t you—it was the noise
Inside my head we mistook for joy”

[Chorus: Slowed tempo, layered vocals with fading reverb]
WE WERE A FLAME IN CHRISTMAS AIR…
JUST SPARKS THAT FIZZLED ANYWHERE…
No countdown left, no chime, no lie
Just August dust where “forever” died

[Outro: Faded echoes, single guitar line dissolving]
(softly)
Mistaken love… tangled tight…
Unraveled in the summer light…

Alternative rock