Dead Heat

(Intro – [The Weeknd])
You said it’s the last time…
You lie so pretty when your lips shake
Told me you hate me just to taste me
We break rules just to feel fake
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(Chorus – [SZA] & [The Weeknd])
[SZA]:
You only want love when it hurts
You only call back when it’s worse
You keep me drowning just to thirst
You love me more when I’m cursed
[The Weeknd]:
And girl, we move like we haunted
Both of our hearts outta service
You want a drug, not a purpose
You want the flame, not the furnace
[Both]:
(Yeah)
We run in dead heat…
A war with no peace
You die in my sheets
But beg me to breathe
We run in dead heat
You kill just to keep
And baby, I bleed
But you never leave
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(Verse 1 – [The Weeknd])
I’m the echo in your silence
You the cut beneath my gold
Every time you say you’re leavin’
You leave your clothes, never your soul
You poison slow, I sip it fast
You cry in lace, I laugh in glass
My phone dead but the hunger’s loud
You ain’t love me — you just need the sound
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(Verse 2 – [SZA])
You don’t feel real till I break you
You don’t breathe deep ‘til I hate you
Put my hands where your sins live
Then I watch you beg me to save you
I got his name on my pillow
But yours tattooed in my mind
You don’t want me — just the echo
Of the girl I left behind
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(Bridge – [Both])
[The Weeknd]:
Tell me you love me while you lie through your teeth
[SZA]:
Tell me you miss me when you can’t even sleep
[Both]:
Tell me it’s heaven, then leave me in grief
We don’t do love — we just play with belief
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(Final Chorus – [SZA] & [The Weeknd])
[SZA]:
You only want love when it bleeds
[The Weeknd]:
Yeah, cut me just to see me need
[SZA]:
You said forever, just to leave
[The Weeknd]:
Now you’re a ghost inside my dreams
[Both]:
We run in dead heat
A war with no peace
You die in my sheets
But beg me to breathe
We run in dead heat
You kill just to keep
And baby, I bleed
But you never leave
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(Outro – [The Weeknd], whispered)
You stay…
Even when I don’t want you to…
Even when I’m gone.

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