You Built The Damage

It’s one thing just to feel it

Another thing to know

To watch you play so innocent

Like I don’t see the show

Call it my delusion

Say I’m “too much” again

But I can read between the lines

You never learned to bend

One day I’m cutting ties

Next day I let you stay

I hate the way I memorize

Every word you say

I’m not blinded by emotion

I just finally see it clear

You keep calling it confusion

But you built the damage here

Yeah I keep pulling away

But you keep pulling me back

Like I owe you something sacred

While you stab me in the back

Every promise broken

Every truth you tried to steal

You say it’s time I let you go…

Yeah, I know—but I won’t heal

Was I just a lesson

Something you outgrew?

Or did you need somebody

Who believed the lies you used?

You fed me contradictions

Then blamed me for the doubt

Now you’re shocked I see the pattern

That you tried to smooth out

One day I’m walking out

Next day I’m at your door

I hate that I still want you

After everything you tore

I’m not blinded by emotion

I just finally see it clear

You keep calling it confusion

But you built the damage here

Yeah I keep pulling away

But you keep pulling me back

Like I owe you something sacred

While you stab me in the back

Every promise broken

Every truth you tried to steal

You say it’s time I let you go…

Yeah, I know—but I won’t heal

You don’t get to rewrite this

Like I’m the one who changed

You don’t get to play the victim

Of the mess that you made

And I tried—God, I tried

To be smaller, to be kind

But I lost myself in pieces

Just to keep you satisfied

I’m not blinded by emotion

I’m just done ignoring truth

You keep hiding behind silence

Like it isn’t all on you

Yeah I keep pulling away

And this time I won’t come back

You don’t get to hold my heart

While you’re breaking it like that

Every promise broken

Every lie you tried to seal

You say it’s time I let you go…

Yeah, this time—I will