Cold Chicken and Heartbreak

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🎤 [Intro – 4 Bars, soft strumming with distant laughter or rain]

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You left the door wide open, but took the keys

Left my heart on "maybe" and the stove on "please"

I still see steam from that cornbread pan

But it’s colder than your goodbye, ma’am

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🎤 [Verse 1 – 8 Bars, soulful with attitude]

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Chicken's cold on the countertop

Like your love when the fight don’t stop

You said “I’m fine,” then packed your things

Left mashed potatoes and diamond rings

The rice still soft, like your “forever” line

Said you’d call — I’m still starin’ at the time

You ain’t come back, and that’s the catch

Even the sweet tea tasted like a scratch

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🎤 [Chorus – 8 Bars, catchy & emotional with light humor]

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Cold chicken and heartbreak, sittin’ on my plate

Ain’t no warmth in the words you fake

Left the love, left the lights, left the pie on the tray

But you took my pride and walked away

There’s gravy stains on my favorite song

And I keep reheating what feels so wrong

If love was a meal, we burned it late

Now I’m feastin’ on cold chicken and heartbreak

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🎤 [Verse 2 – 8 Bars, more serious tone under the wit]

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I don’t clean the dishes — feels too soon

Like I’d wash away what you left in the room

Every fork feel like a memory stabbed

Every napkin still got notes we had

I sit at the table like you’ll walk in

But the only sound’s this microwave spin

They say time heals, but this clock don’t tick

Just sits with me in your half-gone flick

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🎤 [Bridge – 4 Bars, falsetto harmony or solo high run]

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Your perfume still owns the air

And this meal feels like a love affair

Left me full of what we won’t fix

Servin’ sadness in leftover mix

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🎤 [Final Chorus – 8 Bars, stronger delivery, last line held]

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Cold chicken and heartbreak, side by side

Taste of you still stuck in my pride

I toast to nothin’ with a solo spoon

And hum your name like a gospel tune

I clean my plate, but I ain’t full

Just bitter, broke, and pitiful

If you ever miss me past the ache…

I’ll still be here… with cold chicken and heartbreak 🎵

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