Walking Red Flag

You came in sweet like a warning sign

Sugar on your teeth, venom in your smile

Said I was special, said I was safe

While you were counting every mistake

You dressed your control up as concern

Turned every lesson into something I learned

I bit my tongue till I tasted blood

Calling it love, calling it enough

You fed me truth in edited lines

Kept me guessing, crossing my mind

I shrank myself just to keep you calm

Set myself on fire to keep you warm

You say you love me

But I’m no longer free

You have so many faces

A pocket full of aces

I used to be so headstrong

Now I feel I’m always wrong

How’d I get so off track?

Your a walking red flag

Your a walking red flag

You rewrite history mid-fight

Swear I’m the problem every time

You say “you’re crazy,” say “relax”

While you’re stacking up the facts

Every silence is a threat

Every word I say’s a test

I don’t scream, I calculate

How to breathe without setting you off again

I don’t recognize my reflection now

Second-guessing every vow

I apologize before I speak

Just in case you decide it’s me

You said I’d break without your hand

Funny how I still can stand

Every lie you called the truth

Left a bruise I had to prove

You say you love me

But I’m no longer free

You have so many faces

A pocket full of aces

I used to be so headstrong

Now I feel I’m always wrong

How’d I get so off track?

Your a walking red flag

Your a walking red flag

Love shouldn’t feel like I’m on trial

Like I’m guilty when you smile

If I have to beg for air

That’s not love, that’s a snare

You don’t break bones, you bend the truth

Tie my silence in a noose

I won’t wear your version of me

I’d rather burn than disappear quietly

Now I see it in the light

All the patterns, all the signs

Every “sorry,” every “wait”

Was another lock on the gate

You don’t get to rewrite me now

I found my voice, I broke it out

I don’t need you to feel whole

I take my power back, control

You call it love—I call it done

I’m not the damage you outrun

I walk away without a scar

That you don’t already have

You say you love me

But I’m no longer free

You have so many faces

A pocket full of aces

I used to be so headstrong

Now I feel I’m always wrong

How’d I get so off track?

Your a walking red flag

Your a walking red flag

And I’m done