Invisible Bruises

[Verse 1]
Laughing in the kitchen
Cracks along my grin
Everyone is talking
I’m unraveling again
Bite down on the stories
Tongue tastes like a lie
Say I’m really “doing great”
Watch their eyes slide by
[Chorus]
So I hide it
Every break
Every bruise
Every night that I wake up
Still reaching for you
If I cried in this crowded room
They’d just look away
So I swallow the flood
And I drown in the day
I’m hiding the hurt of losing you
’Cause nobody stays for the truth
[Verse 2]
Scroll through all our photos
Thumb against your face
Pixel-perfect memories
Ghosts I can’t erase
Friends change the subject
When your name slips out
Guess my grief’s too heavy
For their paper doubts
[Chorus]
So I hide it
Every break
Every bruise
Every night that I wake up
Still reaching for you
If I cried in this crowded room
They’d just look away
So I swallow the flood
And I drown in the day
I’m hiding the hurt of losing you
’Cause nobody stays for the truth
[Bridge]
Maybe if they’d asked twice
Stayed when I said “I’m fine”
They would see the empty seat
You left inside my life
But I stitch up my silence
Wear it like a mask
If they never really saw us
Why would they ever ask
[Chorus]
So I hide it
Every break
Every bruise
Every night that I wake up
Still reaching for you
If I cried in this crowded room
They’d just look away
So I swallow the flood
And I drown in the day
I’m hiding the hurt of losing you
’Cause nobody stayed for the truth

Moody alt-pop ballad with male vocals. Sparse piano and distant pads in the verses, vocal up close like a confession. Chorus swells with gritty drums, airy synths, and doubled hooks. Bridge strips back to near-acapella before a final, heavier chorus with stacked harmonies and a long reverb tail.