Kiss Me At The Ruins

[Verse 1]
You: Ash on your leather sleeves
Me: Ink on my trembling hands
You say
“We were kids with teeth”
I say
“We were fire and gas”
You: I never learned slow or safe
Me: I never learned how to stay
We carved our names into new scars
Then kissed the hurt away
[Chorus]
Kiss me at the ruins of the life we knew
Every broken window still remembers you
To love this deep is to lose it all
I’d burn down every future just to hear you call
Kiss me at the ruins
Where we both still bleed
Love is just a promise that can’t guarantee
To love this much is to risk the fall
I’d rather crash beside you than not love at all (hey!)
[Verse 2]
You: We dressed our fear in velvet
Me: We crowned our grief in chains
We laughed in empty parking lots
Daring thunder to say our names
You: I smashed my past like bottles
Me: I stitched you into my coat
We built a throne from wreckage
Then choked on every oath
[Chorus]
Kiss me at the ruins of the life we knew
Every broken window still remembers you
To love this deep is to lose it all
I’d burn down every future just to hear you call
Kiss me at the ruins
Where we both still bleed
Love is just a promise that can’t guarantee
To love this much is to risk the fall
I’d rather crash beside you than not love at all
[Bridge]
You: If I hadn’t loved you
Me: I’d be safe
I’d be fine
You: If I hadn’t left you
Me: Would your ghosts still haunt mine?
Both: We were cursed
We were chosen
Both: We were brave
We were cruel
Both: Every “always” that we shouted
Now echoes in this ruined room (woah)
[Chorus]
Kiss me at the ruins of the life we knew
Every broken window still remembers you
To love this deep is to lose it all
I’d burn down every future just to hear you call
Kiss me at the ruins
Let the past collapse
Hold me through the aftershock
No looking back
To love this much is to risk the fall
But I would lose everything
Just to have you at all

rock, Gothic punk duet with male/female vocals trading lines; brittle, overdriven guitars and floor-tom-heavy drums. Verses stay half-whispered and tense, bass pulsing in a minor key; choruses explode with octave chords, shouted harmonies, and roomy gang vocals on the hook. Short feedback swells and a dissonant guitar lead underline the emotional cracks., raw, punk