Paper Doll

[Verse 1]
You say I’m all you ever wanted
Then you scroll right past my face
Laughing in a stranger’s comments
Like I’m easy to replace
I’m whispering my heart in paragraphs
You answer with a half-line text
I’m standing right here breaking
While you’re dreaming ’bout the next
[Chorus]
I go back and forth
Do I stay
Do I leave?
’Cause you look right through
Every part of me
You put them up high
Like they’re something you can’t touch
While I’m right here begging
Just to ever be enough
I’m tired of loving you
Like a paper doll
Pretty when you want me
Then you toss me to the wall
[Verse 2]
You tell me I’m “so dramatic”
When I call out what you do
But if I disappeared tomorrow
Would you even miss the truth?
You know every girl you follow
Better than you know my fears
How you memorize their angles
But you still forget my tears (yeah)
[Chorus]
I go back and forth
Do I stay
Do I leave?
’Cause you look right through
Every part of me
You put them up high
Like they’re something you can’t touch
While I’m right here begging
Just to ever be enough
I’m tired of loving you
Like a paper doll
Pretty when you want me
Then you toss me to the wall
[Bridge]
Maybe I’m the only one
Who ever really saw your cracks
Held you when your world felt cold
You just never held me back
So I’m pulling down your pedestals
One by one inside my mind
’Cause if I have to lose you
Just to finally see me shine
[Chorus]
I won’t go back and forth
On your maybe
On your doubt
If you can’t see me now
Then you don’t get me when I’m loud
You can keep your empty praise
For the girls inside your phone
I’m done shrinking for a place
In a heart that’s not my home
I’m done being your
Little paper doll
I’m walking out the door now
Watch me
Watch me
I won’t fall

Moody R&B slow-burn, sparse keys and warm pads under tight, punchy drums. Intimate female vocals, close-mic’d, with soft doubles on the hook. Verses stay low and confessional; chorus blooms with stacked harmonies and distant vocal swells. Subtle bass movement and filtered percussion lifts the second half, ending on a stripped, fragile outro.