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.