Don’t promise me the world (Lyrics) Past and Present

[VERSE 1] Don’t promise me the world and then disappear when it starts to burn, come back like winter after I learned to live without the sun. You leave without a warning, then return when I’m almost gone, like you only reach for me when the feeling’s almost gone. [PRE-CHORUS] One day you lift me high enough to touch the sky, the next I’m face-down in the dirt asking myself why. Every time I swear I’ve finally had enough, you pull me back beneath the current of your love. [CHORUS] You pull me close just to let me go, set me on fire, then leave me in the cold. I never know which side of you I’ll find— the hands that hold me or the ones that leave me behind. You build me a heaven, then lock every door, leave me on my knees still begging for more. [VERSE 2] I’d rather be alone, let it die and start it over, but you got me on your hook, drowning deeper in your love. Frozen beneath your icy gaze, you pull me lower and lower, trapped in absolute zero, buried underneath your love. You make me question every truth I knew, until I can’t tell what is me and what is you. I crawl back toward the person I once was, then you appear and drag me underneath your love. [PRE-CHORUS] One day you lift me high enough to touch the sky, the next I’m face-down in the dirt asking myself why. I keep mistaking all this chaos for a sign, like hurting this much means you somehow must be mine. [CHORUS] You pull me close just to let me go, set me on fire, then leave me in the cold. I never know which side of you I’ll find— the hands that hold me or the ones that leave me behind. You build me a heaven, then lock every door, leave me on my knees still begging for more. [BRIDGE] Stained by the heavy incense of your fire, breathing in your poison while the flames climb higher. I called it love while it hollowed out my bones, called you my shelter while you made me feel alone. You come back sweet when I’m learning how to leave, say everything I wanted when I finally stop believing. And every time the door is almost closed, you breathe life into the part of me I’m trying to let go. [BREAKDOWN / QUIET SECTION] So which one are you tonight? The fire… or the ice? The arms that pull me in… or the hands that let me die? [FINAL CHORUS] You pull me close just to let me go, set me on fire, then leave me in the cold. I’m done pretending I don’t already know— you only love me when you’re scared I’ll let you go. You build me a heaven, then lock every door, leave me on my knees still begging for more. [OUTRO] Don’t promise me the world if you’re only passing through. Don’t come back like winter when I finally learned to live without you.