The Vampire Diaries

Found my heart in Mystic Falls

Ink-stained pages

Cracked old walls

Every scar a secret call

Yeah, I wrote it all

Met you on a Monday

Blood-red sunrise over town

Leather jacket, crooked grin

Thought you’d turn my world around

Every hallway, every locker

Had your name carved in my mind

I was busy chasing monsters

Didn’t see you weren’t my kind

Staring at the ceiling, 3 a.m. and I’m rewinding

Every single chapter where you swore that you were trying

You were playing hero, I was busy trying to live

You were saving every stranger

I just needed you to give

One night, one word, one truth, no mask

But you loved the chase, you loved the task

Kept me in the margins, scribbled in the side

I was just a footnote in your double life

You said “forever” in the driveway

Fog on the glass, hands on my waist

Soon as I turned the final page

You vanished without a trace

This is The Vampire Diaries

All your lies in red and ink

Every kiss a tiny crime

You’re the ending I outgrew

Yeah, I burned our entries

Ripped your memory from the seams

You were poison, you were pretty

Now I’m writing over you

The Vampire Diaries

Doesn’t end with me and you

You loved my broken pieces

Said my darkness made you whole

But you never stayed for healing

Only fed on every hole

You were brooding in the corner

While I bled to keep you safe

I was holding up the story

You were busy hiding face

You were textbook tragic, classic cloak-and-dagger habit

I was trying to study peace, you were majoring in havoc

All my friends were warning me, I underlined the doubt

Still I dog-eared every moment, couldn’t throw the pages out

Now I’m flipping through the wreckage

Highlighter on your games

You were love in fiction only

Just a mask and borrowed names

You said “forever” in the driveway

Fog on the glass, hands on my waist

Soon as I turned the final page

You vanished without a trace

This is The Vampire Diaries

All your lies in red and ink

Every kiss a tiny crime

You’re the ending I outgrew

Yeah, I burned our entries

Ripped your memory from the seams

You were poison, you were pretty

Now I’m writing over you

The Vampire Diaries

Doesn’t end with me and you

[low vocal register] I’m done with tragic love affairs

Done with waiting on your stare

[build] No more midnight “saving me”

When you’re the one that made me bleed

I’m not your damsel in distress (no)

Not your chapter to confess

Close that book, I tear the spine

This story’s finally mine [guitar solo]