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Heart Like a Gernade
- **Heart Like a Grenade**
- (Intro —clipped, urgent)
- Heartbeat like a metronome, menace on the stereo,
- I lace up my lungs, then let the pressure go.
- (Verse 1)
- I spit matchstick confessions, burn bridges with a grin,
- love’s a bullet in the chamber, and the safety’s not within.
- I’m a wired up soldier with a smile like a scar,
- keep the pain in the pockets where the memories are.
- You tugged my seams, ripped dreams, left prints on the chest,
- I count the scars like trophies, every wound’s a protest.
- I walk in the smoke, swallow smoke, and still I breathe,
- your name’s a headline that my chest can’t sleeve.
- People say “man up” —fuck that, man down’s a lie,
- I’m the echo in the alley that refuses to die.
- (Pre Chorus —tightening)
- You’re the virus and the cure wrapped in the same vein,
- pull me close, then let go, then call me insane.
- I’m addicted to the friction, addicted to the pain,
- I’d rather torch up the world than watch us go tame.
- (Chorus —punchy, repeated hook)
- Heart like a grenade, I hold it by the pin,
- pulled back the ring just to see what we’re in.
- Love like a warzone, we bending but won’t break,
- I’m detonating quiet just to hear you say my name.
- Heart like a grenade, ticking under skin,
- we’re playing with the fuse but we’re both committing sin.
- If the world wants ashes, let it have the flame —
- I’d rather burst in color than suffocate in tame.
- (Verse 2 —faster, more internal rhyme)
- You’re the static in my system, the glitch that turned to gold,
- the story in the margins I keep reading when I’m old.
- I spit jabs at the clock, knock blocks off the wall,
- your laugh’s a landmine, watch me stumble, watch me crawl.
- I’m a heavyweight with words, but your whisper floors me light,
- you pull the blackout curtains in the middle of my fight.
- We’re two lane combustion —crash, then rebuild,
- yeah we twist up our fate, then we sign what we kill.
- No instruction manual, no warranty for hearts,
- we improvise explosions when the tenderness starts.
- (Pre Chorus —building)
- You’re a sermon that I skip, then memorize the lines,
- a cigarette at midnight where the ash still defines.
- I’m a boxer with a bruise that loves the purple hue,
- I’ll take the sting for the ring if you’ll step in too.
- (Chorus —full force)
- Heart like a grenade, I hold it by the pin,
- pulled back the ring just to see what we’re in.
- Love like a warzone, we bending but won’t break,
- I’m detonating quiet just to hear you say my name.
- Heart like a grenade, ticking under skin,
- we’re playing with the fuse but we’re both committing sin.
- If the world wants ashes, let it have the flame —
- I’d rather burst in color than suffocate in tame.
- (Bridge —breathless, rapid fire)
- Call me reckless —I’ll answer reckless, call me crazy —I’ll confess it,
- call me fragile —I’ll fold just to fold back and progress it.
- I’m a house with busted windows but the music’s blasting louder,
- you’re the arson in the attic that made a coward prouder.
- We got catalogs of scars, we got ledgers full of pain,
- but every ledger's balanced when your heartbeat spells my name.
- Tension in the tendon, tension in the throat,
- we keep building bridges just to light the boats.
- (Breakdown —softer, then snap back)
- Quiet for a second —and I fear I’ll lose the sound,
- so I scream into the attic till the echoes come around.
- You’re the weather and the shelter, the thunder and the calm,
- the vice and the release —the poison and the balm.
- (Chorus —final, emphatic)
- Heart like a grenade, I hold it by the pin,
- pulled back the ring just to see what we’re in.
- Love like a warzone, we bending but won’t break,
- I’m detonating quiet just to hear you say my name.
- Heart like a grenade, ticking under skin,
- we’re playing with the fuse but we’re both committing sin.
- If the world wants ashes, let it have the flame —
- I’d rather burst in color than suffocate in tame.
- (Outro —resolute)
- So light the match, come closer, watch the night combust,
- I’ll keep this heart like a grenade —in love, in ruin, in trust.
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