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No One Calls it Murder


Artist: Crone Fires
Key Signature: E minor
Time Signature: 4/4
Artist's Description
“No One Calls It Murder” is a slow-burning alt-country ballad written for listeners who want something honest, heavy, and unforgettable. Stripped down to the bones—acoustic guitar, baritone vocal, and a few ghost-trailing notes of steel or fiddle—it lets the lyrics take center stage, and those lyrics cut like regret.
The song’s narrator doesn’t rage, doesn’t beg, doesn’t romanticize. He just lays it out: everyone kills what they love, whether they mean to or not. Some do it slowly—by forgetting to call, by letting distance replace affection, by hiding behind fear. Others do it fast, clean, and final. Either way, the damage is done. Love doesn’t fade; it bleeds. And when it dies, we carry the wound like it’s not there, even though it never stops hurting.
At its heart, the song reframes heartbreak and emotional abandonment as a kind of murder. The line “The kind ones? They stab the heart fast. Because they know love gets cold when it dies” feels like a Southern gothic proverb—brutal, true, and impossible to forget. There are no choruses begging someone to come back. No melodrama. Just the bitter clarity that sometimes love is lost not to time, but to cowardice—and sometimes we are th


Genre(s): Country, Alternative Country
Mood(s): Bitter, Mournful, Sad
Style(s): Alternative
Tempo: 60-85 BPM
Language(s): English
Instrument(s): Drum Kit,Guitar-Electric
Vocal Type(s): Male Vocals
File Type: MP3

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No One Calls it Murder

[Verse 1]
His eyes looked like
he’d left something burning behind him.
Because he’d destroyed
the only one he ever loved.
And yeah—
that’ll kill you.
He walked away,
even though he was still in love.
Said it was “because of his problems”—
but really,
he did it out of fear.

[Verse 2]
Don’t act like it’s rare.
Everyone kills what they love.
Let that sink in.
Some do it with silence.
Some talk it to death.
The coward kisses while slipping away,
saying nothing’s wrong.
The brave?
They just pretend
they cut it clean.
It still bleeds,
like it always does.

[Chorus]
The kind ones?
They stab the heart fast.
Because they know—
love gets cold when it dies.
But you can’t let it die
slowly.

[Verse 3]
Some fall in love too young,
too scared to let it grow.
Some wait until love gets old,
then cash it out—
sell it like a bad stock.
Some smother it in lust,
afraid to let it breathe.
Others drown it in money,
afraid that it can swim.

[Verse 4]
Some love for a second,
some cling for a lifetime.
Some rent it,
some sell it off in pieces.
Some cry the whole way through.
Some don’t blink once.
But everyone kills what they love,
one way or another—
in big and small ways.

[Bridge]
You don’t always mean to.
You don’t always know
you’re doing it.
But once you’ve done it—
you can’t take it back.
It’s gone, and you’re empty.
Even if you pretend
you cut it clean,
love still bleeds,
like it always does.

[Verse 5]
Not everyone is punished for it.
They don’t hang you for it,
don’t drop you through the floor
in front of a crowd.
You are your own executioner.
Even if you don’t wear a mask,
even if you never hear the trapdoor creak.
You just keep walking.
Pretend nothing happened.
And pretend you’re the only one
who has to live with it.
No one ever calls it murder.
But it is.

[Verse 6]
You don’t pay for it all at once.
You pay for it
every time you remember—
and pretend you don’t.
That’s the thing about love.
It seems to die quiet,
but it screams inside your heart.
And no one
gets away clean.

[Outro]
It isn’t actually murder.
It’s forgetting to call.
It’s forgetting how to talk.
It looks like walking away
and pretending it was kindness.
You don’t mean to.
Sometimes you don’t even know
you’re doing it.
But once it’s done—
you can’t take it back.
Even if you pretend
you cut it clean,
love still bleeds,
like it always does.

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