Only When It Burns — A Song Inspired by Crisis friend trend

[Intro]
[Male, low]
Phone lights red in a dead room
Smoke under somebody else's door
I know the sound of your disaster
I have slept beside it before

[Verse 1]
[Male]
You don't call when the sky is clean
You don't knock when the table is set
You come in loud with your hands all shaking
And leave me holding what you forget
I kept a coat by the back stairs
I kept my boots where the rain could see
Every midnight had your name on it
Every siren sounded like me

[Pre-Chorus]
[Female harmony enters]
I was the bridge when the wires came down
I was the floor when you hit the ground
I was the light you could use, then lose
Now I hear that alarm and I choose

[Chorus]
[Male and Female]
Only when it burns, only when it breaks
Only when the whole house shakes
Only when your world goes black
You remember I know the way back
Only when it burns, only when it bleeds
You come running back to me
I am not your emergency
I am not your emergency

[Verse 2]
[Male]
There is a chair where you used to vanish
There is a cup with a crack in the side
I learned the shape of being useful
I wore it down to bone and wire
You called it love when I answered fastest
You called it cold when I locked the gate
But I can't keep dying in the doorway
Just to prove I can stay awake

[Pre-Chorus 2]
[Female]
I was the rope when the well went deep
I was the promise you would not keep
I was the yes you could burn right through
Now the red light rings, and I choose

[Chorus]
[Male and Female]
Only when it burns, only when it breaks
Only when the whole house shakes
Only when your world goes black
You remember I know the way back
Only when it burns, only when it bleeds
You come running back to me
I am not your emergency
I am not your emergency

[Bridge]
[Female, quieter]
If you loved me in the daylight
You would know my normal name
Not just shout it through the smoke
Not just curse me through the flame

[Male]
I can care and still not carry
Every roof that you ignite
I can hear the siren fading
And let it disappear tonight

[Guitar Solo]

[Final Chorus]
[Male and Female, heavier]
Only when it burns, only when it breaks
Only when the whole house shakes
Only when your world goes black
You remember I know the way back
Only when it burns, only when it bleeds
You come running back to me
I am not your emergency
I am not your emergency

[Outro]
[Male, exhausted]
Phone lights red in a dead room
I turn it face down on the floor
Smoke under somebody else's door
Not mine anymore