[Verse 1]
You kept a ledger of the things I did wrong
While your own hands stayed clean all along
I learned to flinch when the telephone rang
And apologize before I knew what I’d done
[Pre-Chorus]
I wore your weather like a coat in July
Called it love when I was learning to hide
[Chorus]
I’m putting your story down
I won’t carry it through this town
What you called my fault, I can finally see
Was a chain you fastened carefully
I won’t beg your door for a little release
I’m finding closure, I’m choosing peace
[Verse 2]
You’d turn the room when I asked for the truth
Make my memory stand trial for you
I kept receipts in a box by the bed
Not for revenge, just to trust my own head
[Pre-Chorus]
Now I can name what I swallowed whole
And take responsibility for saving my soul
[Chorus]
I’m putting your story down
I won’t carry it through this town
What you called my fault, I can finally see
Was a chain you fastened carefully
I won’t beg your door for a little release
I’m finding closure, I’m choosing peace
[Bridge]
I own the words I should have said
The doors I stayed behind instead
I own the ways I lost my ground
But your control is not mine now
[Final Chorus]
I’m putting your story down
Let it fall without a sound
I’ll answer for the harm I made
And leave the debts you invented unpaid
No final speech, no courtroom scene
Just a quiet life where I can breathe
I found closure, I’m choosing peace
Yes, I found closure, I’m choosing peace
[Outro]
The key turns once, the old lock gives
I take my name back, and I live