[Verse 1]
Ashes floating through the hotel fan
You traced revolutions on my hand
Outside, the taxis bled into the rain
Like every street was trying to forget our names
You spoke about death like a philosopher
Calm enough to make it sound familiar
While the jukebox choked on old refrains
And strangers slow-danced through their private pain
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[Pre-Chorus]
We were young enough to worship chaos
Old enough to know it never loved us
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[Chorus]
So pour the wine and ruin my reputation
Turn this confession into celebration
If paradise exists beyond these bars
Why do broken people love the dark?
Hold me like tomorrow’s counterfeit
Like every kiss is political unrest
Cause nothing honest ever stays pristine
Not hearts, not love, not anything we dream
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[Verse 2]
Your lipstick stained the filter of my smoke
Like evidence from something almost holy
The preacher on the television screen
Sold salvation like a luxury machine
Meanwhile the city howled in overheating wires
Teenagers and prophets feeding fires
Everybody desperate to be seen
Inside a system built to stay unseen
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[Bridge]
Tell me, when the buildings finally drown
Will anybody remember this town?
Or will our shadows dissolve into the stations
Along with all our unfinished conversations?
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[Final Chorus]
So let the speakers burst into distortion
Let romance die in perfect slow-motion
And if there’s beauty hidden in collapse
Maybe that’s the reason we relapse
Kiss me while the satellites corrode
While every billboard sells another soul
Cause nothing sacred ever really lasts
That’s why we keep romanticizing ash
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[Outro]
(distant choir + soft bassline)
La la la la - la la la la
We were just noise in expensive clothes…
Trying not to disappear…
qop
