Familiar Pain

You say it’s love…

(Love… love…)

But it sounds like control again.

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…)

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…)

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?)

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…)

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…)

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…)

(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…)

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…)