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Lyrics
[Intro - sparse guitar]
[Verse 1 - soft female vocal]
You always did look best apologizing,
Head down, hands buried in your coat.
Like if you hated yourself enough
I’d forget the things you broke.
You tell me I deserved somebody better,
Like that’s some gift you’re giving now.
You make leaving sound so noble
When you’re the one who shut me out.
I know you’ve got your reasons,
I memorized them one by one.
But reasons don’t keep me warm at night,
And sorry doesn’t make it undone.
[Pre-Chorus - slight build]
You keep turning every wound
Into another thing about you.
[Chorus - fuller band]
So don’t bleed for me,
I never asked you to.
Don’t hang yourself from every word
Like suffering makes it true.
You say you’re poison, you say you’re wrong,
You say I’m better with you gone—
But you don’t get to break my heart
Then tell me why I should move on.
I wanted you.
Not your guilt.
Not some beautiful goodbye.
I wanted you to stay and tell the truth
Without making me ask why.
[Verse 2 - fragile]
You said you’d understand if I hated you.
God, you make it sound so clean.
Like anger’s all you left me with,
Like there was nothing in between.
I remember laughing in your bedroom,
Your shirt hanging off my shoulder wrong.
Every stupid little promise
I believed for way too long.
Maybe I was foolish,
Maybe love makes fools of everyone.
I never needed you perfect.
I just needed you not to run.
[Pre-Chorus - tension rising]
You keep calling yourself a monster
So nobody else gets to name what you’ve done.
[Chorus - stronger]
So don’t bleed for me,
I never asked you to.
Don’t carve my name into your shame
And call that loving me true.
You say you’re poison, you say you’re wrong,
You say I’m better with you gone—
But you don’t get to make the choice
Of when I should stop holding on.
I wanted you.
Not your guilt.
Not some beautiful goodbye.
I wanted one night where you looked at me
And didn’t fucking hide.
[Bridge - exposed]
And if I find somebody someday
Who doesn’t flinch when I get close,
Who doesn’t turn love into a funeral
Just so they can play the ghost—
[Build]
I hope it hurts.
I hope you hate it.
I hope you finally understand
I would’ve walked through hell beside you
If you’d only held my hand.
You were so convinced
That losing you would set me free,
You never stopped to wonder
What staying meant to me.
[Final Chorus - raw]
So don’t bleed for me.
Don’t make this holy now.
There’s nothing brave about disappearing
When you could’ve worked it out.
You say you loved me, maybe you did.
Maybe that’s what hurts the most.
You loved me like a house on fire
Then left me standing in the smoke.
And I still want you—
That’s the part
I wish I knew how to deny.
But wanting you doesn’t mean I’ll spend
Another year asking you why.
[Outro - instruments fall away]
So if you go, then go.
Just don’t tell yourself
You did it all for me.
[Almost whispered]
I never wanted saving.
[Pause]
I wanted you
to choose me.
Details
GeneratedAug 21, 2026
Duration5:17
LanguageEnglish
Style
Raw early-2000s emo ballad, intimate female vocal, sparse clean guitar, slow build, aching and explosive.
Credits
Prompt byUltraEcho104
ModelAria v5.5
