(Verse 1)
I stand alone in the twilight glow,
Every heartbeat echoes for a man I used to know,
Once we burned like a wildfire’s light,
Now your memory finds me in the dead of night.
I gave you patience, I gave you time,
Made your battles feel like they were mine,
I kept believing you’d find your way,
While piece by piece, you slipped away.
(Pre-Chorus)
A ghost of love still haunts this place,
Where laughter danced, now there’s just space,
Your smile’s a memory I can’t erase,
But I’m learning to live with the emptiness you made.
(Chorus)
Oh, I was screaming for the man I knew,
Breaking myself just to get through to you,
I loved you, I fought for you, gave all I had,
Held onto the good when it all turned bad.
But love takes two, and you weren’t there,
I kept reaching out, you never met me there.
It still hurts like hell, but I know what’s true—
I’m finally choosing me instead of choosing you.
(Verse 2)
I spent so long thinking I wasn’t enough,
So I changed little pieces to earn your love,
Bit my tongue, made myself small,
Thinking maybe then you’d want me at all.
I changed how I spoke, how I loved, how I felt,
Put parts of myself somewhere up on a shelf,
Every time you pulled away, I blamed myself,
Like becoming someone else might somehow help.
I questioned my worth with every fight,
Lay awake wondering how to get it right,
What could I change? Who should I be?
What would it take for you to finally choose me?
(Pre-Chorus)
But now I see the ones who were always there,
Who never made me earn the right to be cared for,
I spent so long trying to make you my home,
I forgot I already had one of my own.
(Chorus)
Oh, I was screaming for the man I knew,
Breaking myself just to get through to you,
I loved you, I fought for you, gave all I had,
Held onto the good when it all turned bad.
I tried being everything you wanted me to be,
Till I barely recognised the woman underneath.
It still hurts like hell, but I finally see—
If loving you means losing myself, I choose me.
(Bridge)
I lifted you up while I fell apart,
Kept knocking on the walls around your heart,
I fought for a love you’d already left,
Gave you my all till I had nothing left.
I thought I was too loud, too much, too hard to love,
Then somehow, some days, I wasn’t enough.
So I twisted and bent till I fit what you needed,
Ignored every wound while my own heart was bleeding.
But I’ve got hands that still reach for mine,
People who stayed through the hardest times,
A family who never asked me to change who I am,
Who loved every version you couldn’t understand.
So keep your fortress, keep your walls,
I won’t come running if they ever fall.
I spent too long fighting to make you stay—
Now I choose myself,
I choose my family,
And I’m walking away.
(Final Chorus)
I’m not screaming for the man I knew,
There’s nothing left I need to prove to you,
I loved you, I fought for you, God knows I tried,
But you never fought to stand by my side.
I won’t change myself just to make someone
