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Cold Flame
- **Cold Flame**
- Intro (whisper /ad lib)
- Yeah —yeah, mm, skrrt, woah
- Verse 1
- Cold nights, city breathin' frost on my hood,
- You a warm spark in the streets where nothin' feels good.
- Bulletproof heart but you found the soft spot,
- Countin' scars like commas —still, you never left a dot.
- Used to run from sirens, now I run to your laugh,
- Paper dreams in my pocket, you the real photograph.
- Friends say be careful, love'll cut like glass,
- But your voice on the line turn my winters into past. (yeah)
- Pre Chorus
- You pull me close from buildings with broken lights,
- Hold me while I talk ghosts away at night.
- Diamonds on the dash but your eyes—my only shine,
- Love on the block —baby, you redefine.
- Chorus (hook)
- You my cold flame, keep me burnin' slow, (woah)
- Heat in the shadow where the real ones go.
- You my cold flame, in these alleys we glow, (skrrt)
- Names on the pavement but it’s you I know.
- Verse 2
- Late texts, read receipts, I memorize the tone,
- Your laugh crackin' like a code, I'm decoded when I'm home.
- They bet on my fall but you bet on my rise,
- You see the man past the mask, past the hollow lies.
- We count our blessings in the back of the ride,
- Hands on the wheel, your hand on my pride.
- If the night's a war zone, you my ceasefire,
- We stack dreams like bricks —love's the empire. (yeah)
- Pre Chorus
- You pull me from the dark with a whisper plain,
- Turn my hunger into peace, turn my loss into gain.
- In the static of the street, your melody's clean,
- We built a little kingdom, unseen, unforeseen.
- Chorus (hook)
- You my cold flame, keep me burnin' slow, (yeah)
- Heat in the shadow where the real ones go.
- You my cold flame, in these alleys we glow, (ooh)
- Names on the pavement but it’s you I know.
- Bridge (melodic, vulnerable)
- Promise on a necklace, scars on my sleeve,
- You the only truth I choose to believe.
- If the world try to take it, we keep it close,
- Love write our chapters in the smoke of those ghosts. (woah)
- Breakdown (sparse, intimate)
- No glitter, no fame, just the pulse of our names,
- Under flicker streetlight, girl, we lightin' our flames.
- Say you ride forever —I won’t ask for more,
- You the reason I breathe when the sirens roar.
- Chorus (final, layered)
- You my cold flame, keep me burnin' slow, (skrrt)
- Heat in the shadow where the real ones go.
- You my cold flame, even when the winters blow, (yeah)
- Concrete roses —in the dark we grow.
- Outro (soft, long held)
- Cold flame, don’t burn out, stay right by my chest,
- We made love from the rubble —that's our testament. (yeah)
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