Verse 1
They told me I was distant — all winter, all alone,
that nobody could thaw me, that my heart was carved from stone.
So I never let it close enough to feel the cold I keep,
'til somebody warm sat down beside me in the deep.
Verse 2
You didn't try to fix me, didn't ask me to ignite,
you just stayed there, patient, warm, and steady through the night.
And something I'd kept frozen for a hundred quiet years
went soft enough to finally feel — and that was years of tears.
Pre-Chorus
And everybody whispered, "Oh, that'll never last—
the cold puts out the fire, and you'll lose them just as fast—"
Chorus
But they said we'd cancel out — the frost and the flame,
said one of us would vanish and the other take the blame.
But look at what grew softly in the space between the two:
the first warm day of springtime… and it felt like you.
We don't cancel out. No, we don't cancel out.
Verse 3
You warm me when I'm freezing, when I disappear inside,
you don't read my quiet as a door I'm closing tight.
And I used to think my cold would only ever leave a chill—
turns out it's the thing that lets a racing heart go still.
Bridge
I was so scared my cold would put your light right out.
That all my careful distance would just leave you in the dark.
But you're still here.
You're still burning in the morning.
And it's warmer than it's ever been.
…they really got that one wrong.
Thaw
And for the first time I'm not bracing, not guarding every part—
'cause you stayed so steady, steady, that I trusted my own heart.
You never tried to melt me — you just stayed, and that's the key—
through you I dared to soften… you gave me somewhere safe to be.
Final Chorus
So let 'em say we'd cancel out — the frost and the flame,
I'll be right here in the morning, glad I never played their game.
'Cause everything they feared we'd lose, we somehow doubled too—
the whole wide world got warmer… the day I sat with you.
We don't cancel out. No, we don't cancel out.
Outro
We don't cancel out.
