Memories lost to a cheap disguise

I kept your ghost in a quiet room

Dust never settled, I made it bloom

Every year just a little more

Like you might still walk through that door

I memorized the way you’d speak

Played it back when the nights got weak

Told myself you were just delayed

Not a choice that you ever made

And every silence had your name

Every hope fed the flame

Then your name lit up my phone tonight

Like a spark in the dead of a frozen life

And my hands shook like they used to do

When I still believed in you

But the tears came fast, I couldn’t breathe

All the years caught up with me

I thought fate had finally come through—

But it wasn’t you

Stranger’s face where your voice should be

Cheap disguise on a memory

Like he broke into something sacred

Didn’t know what he desecrated

Didn’t know how long I’d wait

Didn’t know what that name still weighs

Just another stolen skin

Didn’t know where I’ve been

He don’t know what he touched tonight

But he woke something I kept locked tight

Then your name lit up my phone tonight…

Maybe I built you out of air

Maybe you’re not even there

Maybe I held onto a lie

Just to keep something alive

Maybe this was overdue

A shattered dream to see it through

If you’re gone, then let it be—

You don’t belong to me

But he wore your name like it was cheap

Like it didn’t cut me deep

Like it wasn’t carved in bone

Like it wasn’t once my home

Now I don’t want you back again

Just want to burn what might have been

And if he ever shows his face—

I won’t forget, I won’t replace

Some things you don’t get to take

Some wounds you don’t get to fake