Ashes on the pillow

Hook

Girl I tried to hold on

Even when the smoke got thick

Tried to play strong

While we burned little by little in this bitch

Now your side cold

And my pride too heavy to speak

But every time you walk by me

You still feel like home to me

Maybe we should let it burn

If the fire ain’t the same no more

But why every time I leave

I end up back at your door?

Maybe we should let it burn

But the ashes still got your scent

And I swear I move on for a minute

Then I miss you again

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Verse 1

We been dancing round the truth

Like both of us scared to lose

Playing single for the world

But behind closed doors confused

Girl your body still know mine

That’s the part that drive me crazy

How you tell me “don’t touch”

Then lay beside me like my lady

I been fighting all these urges

You been hiding all your feelings

Both pretending we detached

While the tension hit the ceiling

And I know I made mistakes

I ain’t innocent at all

But damn every time we build

Something happens and we fall

Cause loving you ain’t easy

But leaving harder somehow

We keep talking bout tomorrow

While we barely making it now

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Hook

Girl I tried to hold on

Even when the smoke got thick

Tried to play strong

While we burned little by little in this bitch

Now your side cold

And my pride too heavy to speak

But every time you walk by me

You still feel like home to me

Maybe we should let it burn

If the fire ain’t the same no more

But why every time I leave

I end up back at your door?

Maybe we should let it burn

But the ashes still got your scent

And I swear I move on for a minute

Then I miss you again

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Verse 2

I can tell when you want me

You start laughing different

Walk around in them little clothes

Knowing damn well I’m tempted

Then we end up in discussions

Bout what we are and ain’t

You say space is what you need

But your actions say it ain’t

And maybe I been selfish

Trying to love you through desire

Trying to use my hands to fix

What really needed time

But girl don’t act like I imagined

Everything between us

You still look at me sometimes

Like you still ain’t fully freed up

And maybe that’s the problem

Neither one can cut the cord

Too much history in this house

Too much pain still in these walls

I still see forever flashes

Even through all this rain

That’s why every little setback

Feel like pressure on my brain

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Bridge

If I let you go tonight

Would your soul still circle mine?

Would you miss the way I held you

In the middle of hard times?

Cause everybody sees the damage

But they never felt the glow

How two broken people still somehow

Can’t fully let each other go

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Final Hook

Maybe we should let it burn

If the fire ain’t the same no more

But why every time I leave

I end up back at your door?

Maybe we should let it burn

But some flames don’t really die

They just hide beneath the surface

Waiting on the perfect night...