(Verse 1)
Will you stay with me, even when the lights burn out?
’Cause I would recognize your lips under a thousand mouths.
Hard times hit me like a freight train coming,
You were the only one who kept my heartbeat running.
Tell me why the nights feel longer than before,
Why I keep checking shadows like you’re right outside my door.
My head is a mess, I’m a storm you used to calm,
Now every quiet moment feels like holding onto bombs.
(Pre-Chorus)
I keep replaying all the words we never said,
The ones I swallowed whole when I should’ve talked instead.
My wars in shadow, but you were the light—
How do I let you go when you still feel right?
(Chorus)
It’s the butterfly effect, you left and everything changed,
Now the colors in my sky don’t look the same.
I’m screaming in the silence, hoping you’d know—
No matter where I turn, I can’t let you go.
It’s the butterfly effect… yeah, you changed my soul.
(Verse 2)
You were the calm when my storms got violent,
Now I’m talking to your ghost in the places we were silent.
Tell me, do you ever rewind us too?
Or am I the only one stuck living in déjà vu?
Your fingerprints are on the songs I write,
Your shadow dances in my room at night.
Even when I try to run, you always stay,
Like a tattoo on my thoughts that won’t fade away.
(Pre-Chorus)
I keep searching for your voice inside the noise,
I miss the way you said my name like it was a choice.
My head’s still a battlefield you used to know—
I want to move on, but I can’t let you go.
(Chorus)
It’s the butterfly effect, you left and everything changed,
Now the colors in my sky don’t look the same.
I’m screaming in the silence, hoping you’d know—
No matter where I turn, I can’t let you go.
It’s the butterfly effect… yeah, you changed my soul.
(Bridge – emotional, stripped)
If time could break, I’d run it all back,
Fix every moment where I slipped off track.
I’d hold you tighter when the nights got cold,
Say the things I kept in, the truth I never told.
But shadows follow when the lights get low—
My wars won’t end if I let you go.
(Breakdown – spoken/screamed MGK style)
I’m still fighting with the things I never said,
Still haunted by the ghost inside my head.
You were the peace I never learned to keep—
Now I’m wide awake while the memories sleep.
(Final Chorus)
It’s the butterfly effect, you left and everything changed,
Now the colors in my sky don’t look the same.
I’m screaming in the silence, hoping you’d know—
No matter where I turn, I can’t let you go.
It’s the butterfly effect… yeah, you changed my soul.
You’re the echo in my heartbeat, the ache I can’t forget—
I’m still losing you in slow motion,
I’m not over you yet.
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