Bloodlines

BLOODLINES [Verse 1] You came home like a storm front Cold hands, blue eyes, half-drunk Said my silence felt suspicious Like I was hiding ammunition We were sleeping back-to-back then Like two countries on the edge of collapse and Every word turned battlefield Every kiss came back blood-filled I wore your hoodie like a white flag You lit cigarettes off old flashbacks God, we loved like a catastrophe— Beautiful, but built to bury me ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] And I swore I heard the sirens Every time your voice went quiet You said, “Love shouldn’t feel like war…” But what were we fighting for? ⸻ [Chorus] And when the light hit your dark eyes I was your willing hostage Loved you and remembered Even when you turned And tried to burn every bridge we built I refused to believe We were temporary as headlines Thought we’d leave behind Something holier than bloodlines Like soldiers kneeling in smoke So certain we’d survive in bloodlines Bloodlines… ⸻ [Verse 2] I memorized your damage slowly Like scripture carved into the holy Every scar beneath your skin Felt like somewhere I had been You kissed me in the kitchen light While the smoke alarm screamed all night Red wine staining both our teeth Like we shared the same defeat And your mother always hated me Said I carried “bad energy” Maybe she was half-right then You don’t survive me unchanged ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] Now the house is dead quiet No more slamming doors behind us But God, I miss the way we burned Even if it hurt ⸻ [Chorus] And when the light hit your dark eyes I was your willing hostage Loved you and remembered Even when you turned And tried to burn every bridge we built I refused to believe We were temporary as headlines Thought we’d leave behind Something holier than bloodlines Like soldiers kneeling in smoke So certain we’d survive in bloodlines Bloodlines… ⸻ [Bridge] Maybe love’s just mutual ruin Two lost kids with perfect timing Maybe heaven looks like surviving The worst thing you ever wanted And maybe we were never broken— Just young enough to call it romance Young enough to confuse Bleeding with devotion ⸻ [Final Chorus] And when the light hit your dark eyes I still felt the aftershock of it Like every room remembered The shape of us inside it I refused to believe Something this alive could flatline Thought we’d echo through each other Long after our lifetimes Like soldiers kneeling in smoke Still reaching through the fireblind Some loves don’t die— They just live on in bloodlines Bloodlines…