(C) 2025 Dee Swan Music/ Aye Team Productions, under the exclusive license to CodeSwitch Agency LLC

(P) 2025 Dee Swan Music/ Aye Team Productions, under the exclusive license to CodeSwitch Agency LLC

Dee Swan Music/ Aye Team Productions/ CodeSwitch Agency LLC

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[Verse]
Met you in a coat two sizes too big
Hands in your pockets like you’re hiding a script
Laughing at nothing on the back of the bus
Fog on the windows, you were drawing in dust
You said, “I don’t sleep, I just replay nights”
Told me your secrets under yellow street lights
I was a storm that you wanted to ride
You were the shelter I wanted to hide in

[Pre-Chorus]
You said, “If we leave, let’s leave a mess”
Polaroids taped to a half-made bed
I still taste smoke in your secondhand breath
I didn’t know love could feel like a threat

[Chorus]
I don’t need the summer if you’re here in this weather
Hands cold, hearts warm, pulled under your sweater
We can stay forever in a room that’s too small
If the world falls down, I won’t feel it at all
I don’t need the daylight, you look better in grey
Make a home in the shadows where we both feel safe
If it all goes wrong, we can blame the pressure
I just wanna drown in your sweater weather

[Verse]
You kept the blinds half-open at night
Said you liked watching the neighbours’ lives
We made plans that we’d never confess
Like writing our names in the city’s regrets
You used my hoodie as a makeshift shield
I used your playlist as a way to heal
Every sad song felt a little like us
Every soft drum felt a little like trust

[Chorus]
I don’t need the summer if you’re here in this weather
Hands cold, hearts warm, pulled under your sweater
We can stay forever in a room that’s too small
If the world falls down, I won’t feel it at all
I don’t need the daylight, you look better in grey
Make a home in the shadows where we both feel safe
If it all goes wrong, we can blame the pressure
I just wanna drown in your sweater weather

[Bridge]
Windows fog up with the words we don’t say
You trace “stay” then you wipe it away
We both know storms never last forever
Still I keep my heart zipped up in your sweater

[Chorus]
I don’t need the summer if you’re here in this weather
Hands cold, hearts warm, pulled under your sweater
We can stay forever in a room that’s too small
If the world falls down, I won’t feel it at all

Summer Weather In The Midwest

[Verse]
You only call when your screen turns dark
When you need a spark from a fading heart
I’m the backup plan to your cancelled plans
You say “I miss you” with your typing hands
You like the power when I break first
Sip my feelings like they quench your thirst
Keep my heart on a short little chain
Tug it when you’re bored just to feel the same

[Pre-Chorus]
Every time I say I’m done
You text “come on, don’t run”
You know exactly what to say
Pull me backward every day

[Chorus]
Why do you control my heart like a playlist?
Skipping all the parts where we might fix this
You press repeat on all our worst nights
Turn my red flags into soft lights
Why do I hide my hurt like a secret?
Bury it in bass so you don’t see it
You press your thumb right over my scars
Play me too loud, then break my heart

[Bridge]
I’m stuck in your loop, been here for seasons
Addicted to your half-truth reasons
You’re the glitch my chest keeps reading
Error message but my pulse’s still speeding

Control My Heart

[Hook]
Black and white nights, no grey in my head
City lights flicker, keep me half-undead
You say you love me but you ghost my texts
I keep your shadow sleeping on my bed

[Verse]
We don’t talk, we just trade reactions
You post pain, I post distractions
Scrolling through a highlight reel
Of everything we never heal
Uber rides at 3 A.M.
You say “come through,” I say “say when”
You don’t want me—you want the noise
Of quiet rooms and broken boys

[Hook]
Black and white nights…

[Verse]
I’ve been in the deep end drowning in neon
Heart on airplane mode, feelings that I can’t read on
Told you I was poison, you said “that’s what I feed on”
Now the nights replay like a broken rerun
Late calls when your pride starts slipping
FaceTime tears and your mascara dripping
You don’t want truth, you just want a witness
I don’t want love, I just want forgiveness

Black & White Nights

[Verse]
We talked in glitches, half-sent texts
Both afraid to say “what’s next?”
You traced futures on your trembling palm
Said mine looked like quiet storms
We played songs that hurt too much
Still we pressed play just to feel that touch
Lied on the floor, ceiling fan hum
Our problems spinning, we stayed numb

[Chorus]
There’s static in your hands when you reach for me
I feel the interference where we used to be
We’re hugging through a screen door, nothing lands
Love gets lost in the static in your hands

[Verse]
You said forever like a dare
Then left your hoodie on my chair
Now it just hangs like a ghost in my room
Smells like us and impending doom
I scroll our pictures like a CCTV
Watching two strangers who look like me
We stared at the camera like we had a plan
But we were just kids trying to feel like adults then

[Chorus]
There’s static in your hands when you reach for me
I feel the interference where we used to be
We’re hugging through a screen door, nothing lands
Love gets lost in the static in your hands

[Bridge]
Maybe our signal’s too far gone
Maybe we’re better as someone’s song
Either way the noise is all I hear
Every time your name appears

[Chorus]
There’s static in your hands when you reach for me
I feel the interference where we used to be
We’re hugging through a screen door, nothing lands
Love gets lost in the static in your hands

Static in Your Hands

[Verse]
We said “I love you” like a password
Something sacred, something backwards
Now it’s just a phrase we overused
On people who were never you
I walk past places we broke down in
Corners of the city we both drowned in
Every empty streetlight feels like proof
That love’s not gone, just out of view

[Chorus]
I love you
In ways I shouldn’t anymore
In ghosts that sleep behind my door
In songs I skip but still hum through
I love you
Not like a promise, more like rain
That falls on everything the same
Then disappears like it never knew you

[Verse 2]
I learned to hold you without holding on
To let the memory stay but not the storm
Some nights I still miss who I was with you
But I don’t miss the things we put us through
You were the right song at the wrong time
The perfect lyric with a crooked rhyme
I keep the record but I changed the side
Now the needle moves and I survive

[Chorus]
I love you
In ways I shouldn’t anymore…

i luv u (BONUS TRACK)

[Verse 1]
We were young but we felt so old
Counting our fears like unpaid loans
Sat on the curb in our Friday best
Dressed for a party we never left
You painted futures on my torn-up jeans
Told me your fears between nicotine
Said “I don’t wanna die, I just want a break”
From feeling like every step is a mistake

[Chorus]
We’re just cold youth in a warm world
Trying not to fall as it turns, turns, turns
Laughing at the pain like it’s all a joke
Breathing in deep just to watch the smoke
We’re just cold youth on a hot night
Hiding all our scars in the streetlight
If we never heal, can we at least feel truth?
Growing old too fast in our cold youth

[Verse 2]
You had dreams that scared you to death
I had doubts I could never confess
We made a pact on the bus ride home
To never let each other feel alone
But promises bend when the rent comes due
When jobs fall through and the friends do too
Now I see your face in a stranger’s feed
Living that life we said we’d never need

[Chorus]
We’re just cold youth in a warm world
Trying not to fall as it turns, turns, turns
Laughing at the pain like it’s all a joke
Breathing in deep just to watch the smoke

[Bridge]
If we meet again in a different town
Will we still recognize who we are now?
Or just nod our heads like we used to do
Two cold kids in brand new shoes

[Chorus]
We’re just cold youth in a warm world
Trying not to fall as it turns, turns, turns

Cold Youth

[Verse 1]
You said you’d rather hurt than feel nothing
So you keep turning small cuts into something
You poke all my bruises just to see me flinch
Then kiss the damage like it’s innocent
We don’t argue, we just raise the stakes
Say cruel things and call them mistakes
Our love’s a movie with the wrong score
Soft scenes playing while the thunder roars

[Chorus]
We live in a soft hell, pretty on the surface
Candles on the table, demons in the verses
Smiling in the pictures, screaming out of frame
Kissing like we’re trying to set our mouths aflame
We live in a soft hell, wrapped in cotton sheets
Bleeding on the pillow where our hearts don’t sleep
If this is heaven, why do we both yell?
If this is love, why’s it feel like soft hell?

[Verse 2]
You toss “I’m fine” like a loaded word
I say “it’s cool” when it clearly hurts
We sweep our issues under the bed
Now there’s a monster made of what’s unsaid
Your phone lights up, you flip it face-down
Say “it’s nobody” with that crooked mouth
I trust you less than the weather app
But I still come back when you pull me back

[Verse ]
808s slam, I’m a fault line breaking
We’re an earthquake love, whole room keeps shaking
You love drama like a dopamine hit
Say you hate lies, then you sleep with it
We’re too proud to admit we’re scared
Too attached to the pain we share
If letting go is the way we heal
Why’s holding on the only thing that feels real?

[Chorus]
We live in a soft hell, pretty on the surface
Candles on the table, demons in the verses…

[Outro]
Soft hell, soft hell
We decorated our own cell

Soft Hell

The Official Page of Dee Swan:

Based out of St Louis, Mo. but currently in Nashville, TN., Dee Swan is an artist/producer that combines Pop, Hip Hop and EDM as a fusion for a new twist in the music industry. 

Swan's goal is to have people love one another better. He feels there is enough chaos each day and that music can be a way of uplifting one another. He believe's Hope can be found in the lyrics. 
 
This has been the mantra since the beginning of his music career. The St. Louis based artist approaches the pop music scene with a twist of groove-funk style of EDM. Swan wants those who listen to see the need to approach life with LOVE. 
 
Rapzilla recently gave Dee Swan a 10/10 for his song "FIRE" on their Critique Fridays. 
 
Dee was also selected as an opener for their "Rock The Camp" contest in which he shared the stage with TobyMac and Crowder.
 
He has also shared the stage with acts like Big Gigantic, Lucii, Disciple, FF5, Set It Off, Chiodos, KB, Newsboys, WhatUpRG, Switchfoot, Colton Dixon, nobigdyl., 1K Phew, Aaron Cole, Branan Murphy, Audio Adrenaline, Riley Clemmons, Social Club Misfits, Wande and many more.

“ I want people to be influenced by love and forgiveness. So much we can learn. If we start with that, we can do so much...”

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DEE SWAN

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