Delphine moves from the ghosts of the static back into the physical room with this track. It’s a song about the magnetic, often destructive pull of a “fire and defeat” kind of love. In Sector 9, where resources are scarce, Delphine treats a bad habit like a final luxury, acknowledging that even a burning bridge provides a little warmth.

The Last Match Logic

The lyrics capture the ritual of a toxic but necessary homecoming. Delphine describes the “crack in the lock” she fakes and the “soot on steel” where she writes a name that doesn’t last. She isn’t under any illusions about “forever”—she knows this person is going to “break her” or “lie”—but she demands they do it “slow.” It’s the anthem of the last match; you know it’s the end of the box, but you’d rather have the spark than the dark.

The Weight of the Return

The sensory details are classic Delphine: the smell of “fire and defeat” on a coat and the silence that follows “letting you in instead.” The line “I still glow when you return” suggests that her identity has become fused with the arrival of this danger. She reframes the relationship not as a romance, but as a “slow turn”—two people spinning toward the same inevitable end, determined to catch fire one last time before they go.

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ONE MORE FLAME TO BURN

by: Delphine

You knock like you know I’m awake
Like you’ve seen the crack in the lock I fake
I keep saying no in my empty room
But your shadow knows I’ll say yes too soon

You don’t bring flowers you bring heat
In a coat that smells like fire and defeat
I should send you back to where you came
But I’m down to my last match just the same

So if you’re gonna lie at least light slow
Let me breathe in sparks before you go
I don’t want forever just let it burn
We’ve both got one more flame to burn

The walls don’t echo like they used to do
But they know the weight and the sound of you
You don’t say much just hang your head
And I say nothing but let you in instead

I wrote your name in soot on steel
It vanished fast but felt real
They say the sky’s too dark to learn
But I still glow when you return

So if you’re gonna break me do it right
Pull me close and kill the light
We’re not lovers we’re just a slow turn
But tonight we’ve got one more flame to burn