There are times when a relationship burns down from both ends. Tayler Holder crawls through such smoke and fire with his new song. “Dyin’ Flame” fits snuggly next to country radio’s biggest giants. Gooey like earcandy, the smoldering track finds the TikTok star relaying a story about two lovers who know things are about to die out entirely. “We’re throwing matches at a dyin’ flame,” he sings in the chorus.
“You ain’t no angel / Nah, girl, I ain’t no saint,” he admits, laying all his cards out on the table. “We turn each other into something that we ain’t / Swore you off like I always do.” The beat runs like thick caramel, gurgling beneath Holder’s reedy tenor voice. While transmitting his heartache, he arrives upon a resignation that whatever will be will be. He’s accepted the truth, flying his last Hail Mary about the lost connection.
“Shadow dancing on the bedroom wall ’till your silhouette crawls on out in the mornin’,” he sings. Those words fade as quickly as they ignited. With the song, co-written with Beau Bailey, Graham Barham, and Dallas Wilson, Holder believes he finally “found my sound with these lyrics and this track,” he says in a press statement. “I wrote this song about a relationship that both sides know won’t work but they don’t want to give up on it which is why I give the comparison of ‘throwing matches at a dyin’ flame’ in the same sense of trying to restart something that is clearly burning out, this song represents that to a T.”
“You said you hated me, I said, ‘I know you do’ / Yeah, it’s the same damn conversation with the sober you,” he sighs in the second verse. It’s those words that haunt him the most; he’ll never forget them.
Listen to “Dyin’ Flame” below.
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