Ashes on the Back Road

[Verse 1 – Male]
You swore you hated secrets
Swore you couldn't stand a lie
Said your past was full of damage
Now I know exactly why
Truck keys by the doorway
Phone face down, screen going bright
I learned your truth in pieces
On a Tuesday night
[Chorus – Both]
You burned the bridge between my heart
Left it smoking in the dark
Every promise turned to cinder
Every word a falling spark
We can't walk back where we came
It's all ashes, it's all charred
You burned the bridge between my heart
Now there's just this blackened yard
[Verse 2 – Female]
You keep sayin' that I wrecked us
Like I set this house on flame
But you were distant for a minute
Never once said my name
I was reaching, you were sleeping
With your pride and with your phone
Does it matter who struck the match
When both of us felt alone?
[Chorus – Both]
You burned the bridge between my heart
Left it smoking in the dark
Every promise turned to cinder
Every word a falling spark
We can't walk back where we came
It's all ashes, it's all charred
You burned the bridge between my heart
Now there's just this blackened yard
[Verse 3 – Male Rap]
Yeah, late nights, tail-lights, I was ridin' for you
Every bill, every hill, I was climbin' for you
Then I saw that name, that text, that grin
Whole world flipped like a truck in a spin
I ain't perfect, yeah, I shut down too
But I never gave my body, my soul, my truth
To some stranger in a bar off a backroad town
You played queen of the fire, watched it all burn down
[Verse 4 – Female Rap]
You ain't innocent just 'cause you didn't stray
You were gone in the room, you were miles away
You left me on read in my own damn bed
Silent as a stone while I drowned in my head
Still, I crossed that line, yeah, I crossed that state
Hate the choice that I made, but I own my mistakes
I can’t blame the rain for the flood I poured
I broke what I begged you to fight me for
[Bridge – Both]
[Beat drops, just acoustic and vocal]
(Male) There’s a river where our road was
(Female) There’s a hollow where your hand slept
(Male) I stand shouting from my shoreline
(Female) I hear every word you kept
(Male) I can't swim back through that poison
(Female) I can't scrub out what I did
(Both) So we stare across this distance
From two ends of a burned-out bridge
[Chorus – Both]
You burned the bridge between my heart
Left it smoking in the dark
Every promise turned to cinder
Every word a falling spark
We can't walk back where we came
It's all ashes, it's all charred
You burned the bridge between my heart
Now there's just this blackened yard
[Outro – Male & Female]
(Male) Drive on past that river, girl
(Female) I'll let go of what we were
(Male) We were fire in the rearview
(Female) Just a lesson, just a scar
(Both) You burned the bridge between my heart
Now it's just a distant star

rap, Brooding country-rap duet with male and female vocals trading verses; fingerpicked acoustic and mournful pedal steel in the verses, then a heavier trap-country groove with 808-style low end and tight hi-hat rolls under the hooks. Call-and-response harmonies on the chorus, subtle organ pads in the background, and a stripped, almost spoken bridge where the beat drops for raw storytelling before the final chorus swells back in., country, sad