**Verse I (Clean / distant)**
There’s a signal in my bones
Where your voice still comes and goes
Like a ghost inside the wire
Flickering, but never close
I kept you warm inside my ribs
While you slept behind a wall
Every promise lost its shape
Every truth began to stall
**Pre-Chorus (Clean → Strain)**
I waited for the silence to speak
It only taught me how to bleed
**Chorus (Clean / aching)**
I loved you under broken lights
Where nothing ever felt complete
I gave you days, I gave you nights
You left me counting heartbeats
If this was love, it learned to hide
If this was hope, it learned to lie
I called your name into the static
It never called me back
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**Verse II (Clean / darker)**
You said “stay close” then pulled away
Left me standing in between
I learned to read your absence
Like it was something meant for me
I fed the fire just to freeze
Tried to soften all your edges
But every time I reached for you
You taught me different distances
**Pre-Chorus II (Half-scream)**
You don’t get to call this fate
When you watched me suffocate
**Chorus II (Clean → Grit)**
I loved you past the warning signs
(***PAST THE SIGNS***)
Past the point of self-respect
(***SELF-RESPECT***)
I broke myself to keep you whole
(***I BROKE***)
You called it love—
***I CALL IT NEGLECT***
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### **Bridge / Breakdown (FULL SCREAMS)**
***I WAITED***
***YOU LEFT***
***I BLED***
***YOU RESTED***
***YOU TOOK MY QUIET***
***YOU TOOK MY SLEEP***
***YOU TOOK EVERYTHING***
***EXCEPT THE BLAME***
*(drop — one scream held)*
***SAY MY NAME***
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**Final Chorus (Clean Lead + Layered Screams)**
I loved you under broken lights
(***BROKEN ME***)
Where nothing ever felt complete
(***NEVER COMPLETE***)
I’m done screaming through the static
(***DONE SCREAMING***)
I choose me when you don’t choose me
If this is love, it ends tonight
(***ENDS TONIGHT***)
If this is faith, I cut the line
(***CUT IT***)
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**Outro (Clean, fading)**
The signal’s gone
The room is quiet
And for the first time
I survive it
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