Burning Letters

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…)