More songs by Diplo
More songs by Bailey Zimmerman
Description
It's as if someone has taken out an old lighter again - not to make a fire, but just to see if it still works. The flame shoots out, clicks, smells of whiskey and the past. Everything should have burned out long ago, but instead it flares up again - loudly, stubbornly, with a hoarse laugh and the smell of trouble. Two people, two sparks, and each is sure that the other is to blame. And yet together - beautiful, wrong, and somehow alive. Maybe it's not about love, but about chemistry that makes the devil himself clutch his head: how the hell are they not ashes yet?
Lyrics and translation
Original
You've been out in Hollywood tryna make it as an actress
Acting into him 'til your back is on the mattress
And there ain't nothing wrong with it, everybody's got a habit
Got both of us to blame, baby, both of us are batshit
Doing bad shit, the fact is
We're just an old flame, burning at both ends
Sour mash barrel, baby, when the match hits
Only thing I don't know is how the hell we ain't ashes
You burn me, I burn you
Quicker than the cold liquor we burn through
I bet the damn devil himself is asking
How the hell we ain't ashes
I'm 'bout to touchdown, and I heard you're out in Dallas
So tell me where you're at, baby, we don't need no practice
Yeah, we got some baggage, but I ain't mad at it
'Cause you ain't staying long enough for us to unpack it
'Cause we're just an old flame, burning at both ends
Sour mash barrel, baby, when the match hits
Only thing I don't know is how the hell we ain't ashes
You burn me, I burn you
Quicker than the cold liquor we burn through
I bet the damn devil himself is asking
How the hell we ain't ashes
No, we ain't, no, we ain't, no, we ain't
We ain't ashes
No, we ain't, no, we ain't, no, we ain't
We ain't ashes
We ain't ashes
We ain't ashes