Fire & Ice

Lyrics

[Intro] [Verse 1] You always ran a little hotter than I did Always chased the spark before the light You’d slam doors like thunder in the hallway Turn every little wrong into a fight And I’d disappear into the silence Freeze you out before you’d even know We spent years calling it survival When we were just learning how to let go [Chorus] We didn’t break in a single night No sudden crash, no warning signs Just one more wound we left untreated One more truth we set aside You called it fire, I called it ice We spent years trying to decide Which one of us was killing this While it was dying in plain sight [Verse 2] We stopped listening long before we stopped talking Started keeping score instead of keeping faith Built our own versions of the story Till neither one could recognize the place Now every room feels like a courtroom Every word a piece of evidence And nobody remembers where the line was Between being right and making sense [Chorus] We didn’t break in a single night No sudden crash, no warning signs Just one more wound we left untreated One more truth we set aside You called it fire, I called it ice We spent years trying to decide Which one of us was killing this While it was dying in plain sight [Bridge] Maybe that’s the way good things unravel Not with a bang, but little by little One side certain they’re protecting it One side tired of meeting in the middle Maybe every house has cracks beneath it Maybe every promise needs repair Maybe what we lose was never taken Maybe it just disappeared while we were standing there [Final Chorus] We didn’t break in a single night No sudden crash, no warning signs Just one more wound we left untreated One more truth we set aside You called it fire, I called it ice We spent years trying to decide Which one of us was killing this While it was dying in plain sight [Outro] Now the smoke has settled on the furniture The frost is hanging from the frame And looking back, it’s hard to tell Which one of us should take the blame Maybe it was fire Maybe it was ice Maybe it was watching something precious disappear And calling it somebody else’s fault