[Intro]
You say it’s love…
(Love… love…)
But it sounds like control again.
[Verse 1]
Every word’s a chain you hide in charm,
A quiet bruise wrapped in a calm.
You say you care — I nod, pretend,
But I know how these stories end.
(I’ve seen this before…)
[Pre-Chorus 1]
You smile — I flinch, it’s muscle memory,
The calm before you bury me.
Deja vu in a different face,
It’s the same hell, different place.
(same hell… different place…)
[Chorus]
Familiar pain — I wear it well,
Another chapter, same old spell.
You love me just to break my name,
Different man, familiar pain.
(familiar… pain…)
(ooh-ooh-oh… why does it feel the same?)
[Verse 2]
You move like him — that practiced tone,
Apology texts carved in stone.
You pull me close, then twist my trust,
Turn my love to paper dust.
(dust… dust…)
[Pre-Chorus 2]
I see her face in the mirror’s frame,
Different story, but it feels the same.
I swore I’d never live that life,
But patterns cut deeper than the knife.
(deeper… deeper than the knife…)
[Chorus]
Familiar pain — I wear it well,
Another chapter, same old spell.
You love me just to break my name,
Different man, familiar pain.
(familiar… familiar…)
[Bridge]
(glitch vocal: “this can’t be love…”)
Static hearts, we never heal,
Replay trauma, call it real.
I shut down, you shut me out,
Love should whisper — not make you shout.
(not make you shout…)
[Final Chorus / Outro]
Familiar pain — it ends the same,
You call it love, I call it blame.
I fade away, you keep my name,
Different man, familiar pain.
(familiar… pain… familiar… pain…)