[Intro – soft piano, low hums, distant echo]
(spoken, low)
Yeah…
You ever live somewhere that’s not a home?
Where love feels like a cage with curtains on it?
Where you breathe quiet…
‘cause even air feels like rebellion?
Yeah…
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[Verse 1 – dark piano begins, slow rhythm]
Welcome to my house — not the one with the lights on,
The one in my head where the fights don’t stop.
Every wall got rules that I didn’t make,
Every word I say feels like a mistake.
He says I’m safe, but I don’t feel that way,
It’s love on a leash, and I can’t get away.
Every “sorry” comes out rehearsed,
Every hug just makes it worse.
I don’t eat till I’m told I can,
I don’t breathe till he says I stand.
He says, “Don’t leave — you’ll never survive.”
But I already died inside a thousand times.
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[Hook – melodic vocals layered, faint echo]
(sung/rap blend)
This house don’t feel like home,
It’s built from fear and broken bones.
I’m locked inside my mind again,
And the walls keep closing in.
I keep quiet just to cope,
He calls that love — I call that choke.
Yeah, I’m trapped in this role,
Welcome to my house of control.
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[Verse 2 – heavier beat enters, intensity builds]
I walk these halls like a ghost in chains,
He calls it “care,” I call it pain.
He paints the walls white, calls it clean,
But you can’t scrub out what you can’t unsee.
He says “you’re lucky — I made you strong,”
But strength ain’t built on being wronged.
Every “I love you” sounds rehearsed,
Like he’s reading from a script in reverse.
My brain’s his property,
My voice — his mockery.
I play pretend just to stay alive,
But survival don’t mean I thrive.
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[Hook – more powerful, background harmonies rising]
This house don’t feel like home,
It’s built from fear and broken bones.
I’m locked inside my mind again,
And the walls keep closing in.
I keep quiet just to cope,
He calls that love — I call that choke.
Yeah, I’m trapped in this role,
Welcome to my house of control.
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[Bridge – tension builds, cinematic strings swell]
The wallpaper’s peeling — so am I,
Every smile’s fake, every tear’s a lie.
He says, “You’d be nothing without me,”
That’s the part that terrifies me.
I’m not a puppet, I’m not your show,
I’m done living small just to feel “whole.”
If I gotta burn this place to go,
Then light the match — let it explode.
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[Hook – final, emotional and powerful delivery]
This house don’t feel like home,
It’s built from fear and broken bones.
But I’m done living small,
I’ll climb these walls till they fall.
Yeah, I’m done with control,
This pain don’t own my soul.
You can cage my body,
But you’ll never cage my hope.
(beat fades out — piano echoes)
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[Spoken Outro – cinematic silence, voice soft and close-mic’d]
You know…
It’s crazy how a place can feel so familiar,
but still feel nothing like home.
Every wall here’s got a story —
one I didn’t choose to write.
Every door I open leads to the same room,
just with different ghosts.
But tonight…
I’m done pretending.
This house doesn’t own me anymore.
