Time Doesn't Heal

Verse 1

I’ve been counting every second just to get by

Wearing all these faces just to look alright

Days pile up like weight on my chest

I learned how to smile through the worst of it

I show up, I laugh, say I’m okay

Say it enough times maybe it’ll stay

They don’t see the cracks, don’t hear the screams

I’m wide awake but I barely breathe

Pre-Chorus

They say it gets easier if I just wait

But waiting only taught me how to fake

Chorus

Time doesn’t heal — that’s a damn lie

It just teaches you how to smile while you’re dying inside

Yeah, time doesn’t heal, it just teaches you how

To fake a laugh, say “I’m fine,” don’t break down

Time doesn’t heal, it just makes it worse

Makes the pain familiar, makes it hurt less at first

Time doesn’t heal — that’s a damn lie

It just teaches you how to survive

Verse 2

They say I’m strong, say I’ve come so far

But strength just means hiding the scars

I still reach for you without thinking twice

Still hear your voice in the dead of night

I walk through rooms like nothing’s wrong

But every memory proves me wrong

I’m not healed, I’m just numb

Just learning how to hold it all in

Pre-Chorus

They see progress, I see pain

I just learned how to hide it better every day

Chorus

Time doesn’t heal — that’s a damn lie

It just teaches you how to smile while you’re dying inside

Yeah, time doesn’t heal, it just teaches you how

To fake a laugh, say “I’m fine,” don’t break down

Time doesn’t heal, it just makes it worse

Makes the pain familiar, makes it hurt less at first

Time doesn’t heal — that’s a damn lie

It just teaches you how to survive

Bridge

If time was the answer, I’d be okay

But it just stretches the hurt day after day

I didn’t heal, I just learned control

How to lock up the grief, how to swallow it whole

Final Chorus

Time doesn’t heal — that’s a damn lie

I’m still standing here barely alive

Yeah, time doesn’t heal, it just teaches you how

To keep breathing somehow

Time doesn’t heal, it just makes it worse

Turns love into loss, turns living into hurt

Time doesn’t heal — that’s a damn lie

It just teaches you how to surviveSo don’t tell me time heals

Don’t sell me that lie

Time doesn’t heal

We just learn how to survive