Lies Lies Lies

(Intro)
(Solo electric guitar, clean with a bit of reverb)
(Spoken - low, breathy)
Yeah... I heard the name.
Gabrielle.
Funny how "forever" has an expiration date I didn't know about.
(Heavy bass drops - mid-tempo, driving pop-rock beat)

(Verse 1)
Thirty days. That’s all the mourning you could spare?
I’m still breathing in your smoke, and you’re already catching air.
You called me the "summit," the view you’d never leave,
Now you’re hiking brand new trails with a heart up your sleeve.
I’m tracing every promise—the ink is still wet,
While you’re busy rewriting the day that we met.

(Pre-Chorus)
(Music builds, snare hits get faster)
Is she a placeholder? Or just a distraction?
A way to ignore the chain reaction...
Of the bridge you burned while I was still crossing.

(Chorus)
How do you just walk away when I gave you the keys?
Left a crater in my chest, now I’m down on my knees.
You said I was the ceiling, that you’d never find better,
Then you traded in my soul for a brand-new sweater.
It’s just lies, lies, lies—playing on a loop,
I’m the original high, she’s just the follow-up scoop.
(Ha ha! Lies-Lies-Lies)

(Verse 2)
Are you treating our three years like a dress rehearsal?
A black-and-white clip before the color commercial?
I built you a kingdom, I gave you the crown,
Now I’m the ghost in the hallways of our ghost town.
Does she know the "real" you, or just the edited version?
The one who skips the part about your heart’s quick conversion?

(Chorus)
How do you just walk away when I gave you the keys?
Left a crater in my chest, now I’m down on my knees.
You said I was the ceiling, that you’d never find better,
Then you traded in my soul for a brand-new sweater.
It’s just lies, lies, lies—playing on a loop,
I’m the original high, she’s just the follow-up scoop.
 (Ha ha! Lies-Lies-Lies)

(Bridge)
(Music strips back to just a pulse and a synth pad)
She doesn’t know the code.
She’s a scenic bypass on a heavy, broken road.
You whisper her name where mine used to live,
But I gave you the things she doesn’t even have to give.
The silence you left is a physical weight,
I’m the prize you gave up... just a little too late.

(Guitar Solo)
(Distorted, melodic, echoing the vocal melody of the chorus)

(Chorus)
How do you just walk away when I gave you the keys?
Left a crater in my chest, now I’m down on my knees.
You said I was the ceiling, that you’d never find better,
Then you traded in my soul for a brand-new sweater.
It’s just lies, lies, lies—playing on a loop,
I’m the original high, she’s just the follow-up scoop.

(Outro)
(Beat slows down, getting grittier)
I had you first. Let that sit in your head.
When the newness wears off and the fire is dead.
Lies, lies, lies...
(Music cuts to silence)
Hope she fits you well, Gabrielle.
(Final heavy drum kick)

Tempo: 90 BPM heavy bass, contemporary R&B, female