VERSE 1 — (quiet bitterness)
I hid behind a quiet smile
While your words kept burning through my mind
Every breath between us turned to frost
I swallowed every fight we left behind
Now there’s nothing in your place
No warmth, no scent, just empty space
All these memories piling up
Like winter ruins I can’t escape
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🎶 PRE-CHORUS — (restrained anger)
Was it all my fault, or was it yours?
I never even got to ask before
I blamed myself for everything
And held the weight alone indoors
Every word we didn’t say
Burns like letters in a flame
With just your name on the page
The whole night goes up in smoke
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🎶 CHORUS — (devastating swell)
You were the fire, I was the paper
Burning out to ash and vapor
Everything you touched became a scar
And I was left picking up the embers
You were the fire, I was the paper
Trying to erase you only made it deeper
Even saying “I’m okay”
Tastes like poison on my tongue
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🎶 VERSE 2 — (poetic + weary)
In the frozen corners of my mind
Your shadow’s still painfully defined
The lips that said you once loved me
Feel like a lie from another life
One word like “goodbye”
Covered up all of our time
Your last sentence hit me harder
Than the truth I tried to hide
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🎶 PRE-CHORUS — (more angry here)
Why was I always the one left falling?
While you walked away without calling?
At that cold and closing door
I kept whispering I wouldn’t hate you
But even that was just a lie
I can admit it now, without you
Everything we didn’t fix
Still burns in shades of blue
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🎶 CHORUS — (more intensity)
You were the fire, I was the paper
Burned away ‘til nothing later
Deeper than the darkest night
My chest kept burning from the inside
You were the fire, I was the paper
Only shades of gray remain here
Even love became a lighter
And the sparks turned into tears
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🎶 BRIDGE — (raw, poetic, broken)
At the end of love gone cold
I repeated it a thousand times
“Was it me or was it you?”
No answer, only melting lines
All the letters that I wrote you
Never sent, but always true
Now I watch them slowly burning
And your ghost comes shining through
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🎶 FINAL CHORUS — (resigned, shattered)
You were the fire, I was the paper
I’m just burnt-out heartache now
Tried to tear you off my skin
But you cling like something sacred
You were the fire, I was the paper
We knew how tragic this would get
Beautiful because it burned
But all it left was dust and regret
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🎶 OUTRO — (bare whisper)
Only burning letters remain
The you I loved
And the me you never did
(fade…)