STORMFIRE — LOVE KILLS SLOWLY
INTRO
Piano + Saxophone + Didgeridoo
Slow. Hypnotic. Tension building.
Sudden silence — then P U R E M E T A L.
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STROPHE 1
You walked in like a promise no one dared to make,
A perfect contradiction dressed in velvet skin.
I never saw the trap beneath the smile you gave,
I opened every door and let the poison in.
You knew exactly where my weakness lay,
You learned my every fear, then made it yours to play.
I called it something beautiful, I called it fate,
While every little warning came disguised as love too late.
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REFRAIN 1
LOVE KILLS SLOWLY!
You taste like heaven, but your touch becomes my hell.
LOVE KILLS SLOWLY!
You built the cage around me, and I know it all too well.
Every day beside you, I lose another part of myself.
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STROPHE 2
You turned affection into something I had to earn,
Then moved the line whenever I got close.
You gave me just enough to make me stay and learn,
How little of myself I could afford to lose.
You made devotion feel like debt I had to pay,
Then called my desperation proof that I was true.
I started measuring every word I dared to say,
Until I couldn't tell what was me and what was you.
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GUITAR SOLO 1
Melodic → aggressive → accelerating.
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STROPHE 3
Now every room remembers things I can't erase,
Every silence carries something you once said.
I wear your affection like a sentence in this place,
And count the pieces missing from the man I was instead.
I know exactly what your tenderness can cost,
I know the sweetest poison always leaves a trace.
Still I return to everything I've already lost,
Because your absence hurts more than your embrace.
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REFRAIN 2
LOVE KILLS SLOWLY!
You taste like heaven, but your touch becomes my hell.
LOVE KILLS SLOWLY!
You built the cage around me, and I know it all too well.
Every day beside you, I lose another part of myself.
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STROPHE 4
I could walk away, but I don't know who I'd be,
Without the war that keeps me standing at your door.
You took the man I was and left a vacancy,
Then taught me to mistake surrender for something more.
So here I am, still reaching for the hand that makes me fall,
Still calling this devotion while I'm disappearing slow.
You never had to break me — I surrendered it all,
And now I finally understand what I was too blind to know.
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GUITAR SOLO 2
Massive. Furious. Emotional. The final note cuts dead.
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BREAKDOWN
You taste like heaven...
BUT YOU GIVE ME HELL.
You built this cage...
AND I BUILT IT WITH YOU.
Heavy pause.
Every day...
A little less of me.
EVERY. FUCKING. DAY.
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REFRAIN 3 — FINAL
LOVE KILLS SLOWLY!
You taste like heaven, but your touch becomes my hell.
LOVE KILLS SLOWLY!
You built the cage around me, and I know it all too well.
Every day beside you, I lose another part of myself.