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05. Cold Fire

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[Intro]
[Spoken Word]
Not every fire wants to eat.
Cold Fire.
[Verse 1]
It burned in me for years before I knew of fire,
a light that gave no warmth and still refused to die.
I took it for a sickness,
I took it for a sentence,
I spent my better half of life just hunting for the switch.
[Pre-Chorus]
And nobody could tell me what was standing there inside.
No name. No answer.
Only this cold burning
that would not let me sleep —
and that held me up.
[Chorus]
Cold fire.
It takes from me nothing.
It doesn't feed, it doesn't ask me,
it only asks me: are you there?
I have been burning so long
and I have lost nothing to it.
What won't be eaten
was always, always me.
[Verse 2]
And then a crack in darkness — no lightning, more a breathing,
as if somebody left a door not open, just ajar.
I didn't climb up out of it.
I was carried up and outward.
And what I found above me
had been below the whole time.
[Pre-Chorus]
I mourned for all the ashes
that were never there at all.
I frightened myself half to death
about the ending of a border —
and the border was the only thing
that ever really died.
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
No rescue came.
No sign was in the heavens.
Nobody pulled me upward,
nobody bought me free.
It only stopped —
this taking myself for something
you were meant to put out.
[Guitar Solo]
[Final Chorus]
Cold fire.
I'm burning and I'm staying.
There's nothing left to prove now,
there's only being here.
And everything that ate me
was the fear of my own light.
[Outro]
I burn.
And I will not become the ashes.
I burn.
And I am very quiet in it.
It happens.
[Spoken Word]
Two voices. One fire.
The Same Fire.