Foxfire

Copper in the low light

Poison on a slow night

Moment like a match head

Praying I will strike it just right

I gave you all of my good side while you showed me yours

Smile for the photo op let loose out the door

Gave you everything I could, let you fill up on me

Hands of holy fire while you siphoned my dreams

You played it like you meant it

Just enough to sell it

Kissed me like a séance

Raised the dead and left it

Every little moment

Turns out you had stolen

Had me thinking heaven

like you halfway owned it

~~~

You let your body talk

But never let me listen

Lean in like you want love

Then leave after some kissin’

~~~

So tell me what it meant

When your mouth was on mine

I was calling it magic

You were just killing time

Tell me who I was then

When you pulled me in close

Rolled the tinted windows

Like you needed me most

You say you never loved me

That you lied with your hands

Was I a shadow in the right light

Just the shape of another man?

~~~

Back pressed into my chest

Distracted by what comes next

Crowd moves like a flood

Rising with the pulse in my blood

You’d tease at the distance, Work me to the edge slow

Every almost-touch, a dare where I should’ve said no

You kept me on a short wire, buzzing when you walked by

Made a whole religion out of praying for signs

~~~

You let your body talk

Like it had some confession

Let your eyes dance over me

with quiet affection

~~~

So tell me what it meant

When your mouth was on mine

I was calling it magic

You were just killing time

Tell me who I was then

When you pulled me in close

Rolled the tinted windows

Like you needed me most

You say you never loved me

That you lied with your hands

Was I a shadow in the right light

Just the shape of another man?

~~~

Foxfire, Burning where the truth should’ve been

Foxfire, Pretty lie under my skin

~~~

Did you picture someone else

Every time you looked at me?

Did you keep me in frame

Just to fake some chemistry?

Was I just your stand-in?

Did I wear the right outline?

‘Cause I held you like a miracle

And you held me like dead time

~~~

Say it with your full chest

Say you felt nothing

Say all those long nights

Were just your way of bluffing

Say that all that red flame

Never meant danger

I was in your arms

While You were with a stranger

~~~

So tell me what it meant

When your mouth was on mine

I was calling it magic

You were just killing time

Tell me who I was then

When you pulled me in close

Rolled the tinted windows

Like you needed me most

You say you never loved me

That you lied with your hands

Was I a shadow in the right light

Just the shape of another man?

~~~

Copper in the low light

Gone when the song ends

I gave you everything

You gave me pretend