I’m Better Off Without You Anyway

You packed your chaos in a carry-on case

Left fingerprints and charges all over the place

Now you’re posting sunsets somewhere overseas

While I’m here buying groceries and paying fees

Funny how freedom looked good on you

Right up until the bill came through

And I’m done pretending I don’t see

The difference between love and dependency

So go dance in the neon

Go drink on the beach

Go chase every stranger

Just out of reach

You can tell the whole world

How I pushed you away

But I’m better off without you anyway

You liked the version drowning at 2 am

More than the one trying to heal again

The parties, the powder, the reckless nights

Not the man trying to get his life right

And maybe that hurts more than goodbye

Realising growth changed both our minds

Cause I kept building while you ran

And now I barely recognise who I am

So go dance in the neon

Go kiss who you please

Go collect validation

Like souvenirs in the heat

You can paint me the villain

If that helps you explain

But I’m better off without you anyway

I still check my phone sometimes

Still wonder where you are

Still feel my chest cave in

When your name lights up the dark

But the silence after heartbreak

Is cleaner than the noise

And peace tastes strange at first

When you’re used to self-destroying

So take the stories and filters

And all of the smoke

I’m here rebuilding a life

That nearly broke

And one day this anger

Won’t sting when I say:

I was always better off without you anyway.