[Vocal]
[Confident female vocal. Smiles through the pain in the verses. Strong, liberated chorus. Think dancing while finally telling the truth.]
[Instrumentation]
[Driving kick, electric guitar, piano, handclaps, bass, gang vocals in the final chorus.]
[Verse]
You kissed me goodbye and said, “I love you.”
Like those words could cover where you’d been.
I’d watch the taillights disappear,
Never knowing who was waiting in the end.
Every late reply became a question.
Every smile started feeling rehearsed.
I spent so long inspecting my reflection…
Never thinking maybe you were the one who hurt.
[Pre-Chorus]
I blamed the mirror.
I blamed my heart.
Funny how the truth
Was there from the start.
[Chorus]
You made me wonder why you wouldn’t touch me.
Made me wonder who was lighting up your phone.
You could tell me that forever meant forever…
Then leave my arms to crawl into someone else’s home.
One became two.
Then three. Then I quit counting.
Funny how heartbreak eventually goes numb.
How bad does it have to get
Before your heart just shrugs
And says, “Here comes another one.”
[Verse]
There was the girl inside the parked car.
You told me you were “too old” for that.
Funny how your age came back down
The second it wasn’t me you had.
And how dare you bring her that close to me,
Like I was never meant to know.
Turns out disrespect doesn’t whisper…
It parks right outside your door.
[Verse]
Then came the one I caught you running back to.
That’s the day the benefit of the doubt died.
You took my car to get back to her…
I don’t think you know how deep that cuts inside.
And the one while I was out of town—
That one still echoes in my mind.
I called to see if you were doing okay…
While you were spending your time with someone else instead of mine.
[Bridge]
I used to ask what I was missing.
What she had that I didn’t have.
I carried all your choices on my shoulders
Like somehow they were mine to drag.
Then came another name.
And another face.
And another story that didn’t fit.
That’s when something finally broke…
And somehow, it wasn’t me.
[Final Chorus]
You made me question every piece of who I was.
Now I see the questions all belonged to you.
You weren’t searching for somebody better.
You were running from the truth.
So thank you for the second one.
As strange as that may sound.
Because somewhere in all that wreckage
The blame finally hit the ground.
It was never my body.
Never my worth.
Never something I forgot to be.
The hardest truth I ever learned…
Was the one that finally set me free.
It was never me.
[Outro]
I stopped asking why you chose them.
I started asking why I stayed.
And somewhere between those answers…
I found myself again.
