YOU KNEW I WAS BLEEDING

**Verse I**
You said my name like a habit
Like something you forgot to mean
I kept waiting for warmth
While you watched me freeze

You felt me pulling away from myself
And called it me being weak
I was breaking right in front of you
You didn’t even blink

**Pre-Chorus**
I asked you to stay
You asked for space
You knew what that would do to me

**Chorus**
YOU KNEW I WAS BLEEDING
AND YOU LET IT HAPPEN
YOU SAW ME FALL APART
AND NEVER REACHED BACK IN

I GAVE YOU EVERYTHING
YOU GAVE ME DISTANCE
DON’T CALL IT LOVE
WHEN IT WAS NEGLIGENCE

**Verse II**
You loved me best when I was silent
When I didn’t ask for more
You only showed up halfway
Then wondered why I was on the floor

I bent myself into something smaller
Just to fit your life
You called it compromise
While I called it losing my mind

**Pre-Chorus**
Say you didn’t notice
Say you were blind
But you watched me disappear
In real time

**Chorus**
YOU KNEW I WAS BLEEDING
AND YOU LET IT HAPPEN
YOU HEARD EVERY CRACK
AND STILL NEVER STEPPED IN

I GAVE YOU MY HEART
LIKE IT WAS WORTH SAVING
YOU STARVED IT OF LOVE
AND CALLED IT PATIENCE

**Bridge (low, shaking with anger)**
Don’t look at me
Like this was fate
You made choices
Every day

I wasn’t hard to love
I was easy to ignore

**Breakdown (angry, desperate)**
I STAYED
WHEN I SHOULD’VE LEFT
I SCREAMED
AND YOU CALLED IT STRESS

I WAS DROWNING
RIGHT NEXT TO YOU
AND YOU PRETENDED
IT WASN’T TRUE

**Final Chorus (full, furious + hurt)**
YOU KNEW I WAS BLEEDING
AND YOU DID NOTHING
YOU CALLED IT DISTANCE
I CALLED IT LOSING EVERYTHING

I GAVE YOU MY SOUL
YOU LET IT DECAY
DON’T SAY YOU’RE SORRY
YOU KNEW — AND YOU STAYED AWAY

**Outro (cold, exhausted)**
I don’t miss you
I miss the version of me
That still believed
You would care.

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Alt Metal
Prog Metal
R&B, Ambient, and Djent
Clean vocals (baritone - tenor)
Distorted, gritty cleans
Harsh
Male vocals