I Thought You Loved Me

(Style: Pop-rock hybrid with dark pop edge, mid-tempo four-on-the-floor pulse and gritty syncopated bass; verse stays tense with clipped guitar stabs and roomy toms, pre-chorus narrows to voice and bass pull, chorus hits with jagged power chords and a snarling hook. Lead vocal is intimate and close-mic in verses, then doubled and shouted with gang ad-libs in the chorus. Reverse swells, a filtered drum lift, and a tape-stop turn into the final drop. Bright punchy mix with heavy low end and sharp top-end bite, pop, rock)

Your shirt in the corner

Still carrying the storm

I leave the hall light burning

Though nobody comes

You said you’d be back

Like a prayer half-spoken

I held the house together

With hands already broken

I counted every hour

I listened for your steps

The silence got familiar

Like a debt I couldn’t pay

Your last words linger

Like ash against my tongue

I learned some people leave

Before they’re truly gone

I thought you loved me

I thought you stayed

I built a little heaven

You let it decay

I thought you loved me

That’s the hardest part

You left without a warning

And took the air from my heart

Your keys beside the window

For weeks I let them rest

Like proof that you existed

And not another test

Every promise echoes

Through the ribs beneath my skin

Like a hymn I’ve heard too often

Still inviting trouble in

You said have faith

You said give it time

Now I’m staring at the ceiling

Trying not to lose my mind

I counted every hour

I listened for your steps

The silence got familiar

Like a debt I couldn’t pay

Your last words linger

Like ash against my tongue

I learned some people leave

Before they’re truly gone

I thought you loved me

I thought you stayed

I built a little heaven

You let it decay

I thought you loved me

That’s the hardest part

You left without a warning

And took the air from my heart

Maybe I loved too deeply

Maybe I couldn’t see

How every door I opened

Just made it easy to leave

Keep every pretty promise

Keep every last excuse

I buried what we were

The night I buried you

I thought you loved me

I thought you stayed

I built a little heaven

You let it decay

I thought you loved me

That’s the hardest part

Now you’re only a ghost

Walking circles through my heart