(Verse 1)
I built a house on shifting sand,
Hung my coat on a phantom’s hand
She came in wearin’ yesterday’s smile
Left her suitcase at the door just for a while
(Verse 2)
I was the porch light, she was the storm
I lit the night while she kept warm
In every whisper of the wind,
Were names I never should’ve had to live in
(Pre-Chorus)
I held on tight to a ghost in a dress
Loved her deep, but I loved her less
Than the dreams she chased, and the lies she’d spin
She never let me all the way in
(Chorus)
She flew with borrowed wings,
Tied my heart to puppet strings
Told me stay, while she ran wild
Promised forever, with a stranger’s smile
Now I’m just the song she won’t replay
The one she laughs off at the end of the day
I gave her everything, and I got burned
Love like that don’t ever return
(Verse 3)
She said she needed time and space
But all I saw was another face
In shadows where our pictures stood
She traded love for “just because she could”
(Bridge)
She packed the silence in a box
Took the cats and changed the locks
Left my name out in the rain
Now she’s dancing barefoot on my pain
(Chorus)
She flew with borrowed wings,
Tied my heart to puppet strings
Fed me hope with a silver spoon
While she howled at a stranger’s moon
Now I’m the ghost in the photographs
The joke that echoes in her lover’s laugh
I gave her everything, and I got burned
But now I see the lesson I had to learn
(Outro)
Some hearts just chase the sky
Never asking who they leave behind
She never crashed, just flew away
But I’m still here, stronger each day
No more borrowed wings, no more chains
Just a man who learned to walk through flames
And I ain’t beggin’ love to stay again.
