Cold Storage

### **Verse 1**

I packed your name in a box
Labeled *do not open*
Left it buried in the basement
Where the air doesn’t move

I don’t flinch at the memories
They’ve lost their teeth
Everything you were to me
Is just a shape I used to need

### **Pre-Chorus**

I stopped asking why you left
Questions rot if you let them stay
I learned silence is cleaner
Than believing what you say

### **Chorus**

Put my heart in cold storage
Let it freeze where it lies
No more bleeding for closure
No more asking you why

If love is a sickness
I’m finally cured
I don’t feel anything now
And that’s the point of the cure

### **Verse 2**

Your voice sounds smaller lately
Like it’s coming from a phone
Every word feels rehearsed
Every apology’s old

I don’t hate you, I don’t miss you
I just don’t feel the pull
You were a chapter I survived
Not a story I’d redo

### **Pre-Chorus**

I stopped romanticizing scars
They heal better ignored
You can keep the part of me
I don’t recognize anymore

### **Chorus**

Put my heart in cold storage
Let it freeze where it lies
No more bleeding for closure
No more asking you why

If love is a sickness
I’m finally cured
I don’t feel anything now
And that’s the point of the cure

### **Bridge** *(low, tense)*

You wanted access, not devotion
You wanted warmth without the cost
So I turned myself to stone
And called the feeling lost

*(instrumental drop / restrained screams optional)*

### **Final Chorus** *(bigger, colder)*

Leave my heart in cold storage
Let it numb and survive
I don’t need resurrection
I just need it alive

If love is a fire
I’m ash on the floor
I don’t burn for you anymore
I don’t burn at all anymore

### **Outro**

No anger
No forgiveness
Just distance

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Alt/modern rock with post-hardcore roots; emotional clean vocals dominate, scream singing
Male vocals
Baritone/tenor