You thought I'd stay
Because of your trap
You just didn't know
The one who doesn't tell you what you want to hear, but tells you what you need to hear.
I stopped explaining myself when I realized other people only understand from
their level of perception.
We thought so much about what we should be thinking, that we lost the art of feeling..
Painting me as a villain won't erase the accountability you've spent a lifetime avoiding.
[Pre Chorus]
If you can't understand how someone can become so dark and love all dark things, be thankful you've never seen a side of life that took all of the light from you and gave you no choice but to see the beauty in darkness.
[Chorus]
the only thing you have to change is everything.
Your games, your cruelty, your callous hearts
they will not go unrecognized.
You feared I had lost my fire.
But what you didn't know is that...
I was busy lighting a new kind of flame-the one that warms me first. no one goes to war who has made peace with themselves.
you don't break what you understand.
violence isn't power.
[Verse]
and i wonder
if you ever press your fingers to your side
tracing the outline of my name
like it still means something inked into your skin
like it was meant to be permanent.
i didn't leave because i stopped loving you
but because the noise in my head grew louder than the way your hands used to steady me.
how u handle me when im going thru something is how ill look at u forever.
[Pre Chorus]
If you can't understand how someone can become so dark and love all dark things, be thankful you've never seen a side of life that took all of the light from you and gave you no choice but to see the beauty in darkness.
[Chorus]
the only thing you have to change is everything.
Your games, your cruelty, your callous hearts
they will not go unrecognized.
You feared I had lost my fire.
But what you didn't know is that...
I was busy lighting a new kind of flame-the one that warms me first. no one goes to war who has made peace with themselves.
you don't break what you understand.
violence isn't power.
[Bridge]
watch the rivers turn to blood. death will
stand where Life once stood. CLOSE your eyes pray for plagues. something i could say when it all gets too real.
too honest. too loud. too much. tap out. time out. take me back to not knowing. Some endings do not need a talk, The truth was clear in how you walked, In all the ways you chose yourself And left my heart to fix itself.
[Pre Chorus]
If you can't understand how someone can become so dark and love all dark things, be thankful you've never seen a side of life that took all of the light from you and gave you no choice but to see the beauty in darkness.
[Chorus]
the only thing you have to change is everything.
Your games, your cruelty, your callous hearts
they will not go unrecognized.
You feared I had lost my fire.
But what you didn't know is that...
I was busy lighting a new kind of flame-the one that warms me first. no one goes to war who has made peace with themselve
[Outro]
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