[Verse 1 – unstable, barely holding it together]
You said it soft like it wouldn’t hurt
Like lowering a blade instead of letting it drop
Like if you whispered it slow enough
My chest wouldn’t feel it split apart
You wouldn’t look me in the eyes
Like that might make it real
Like if you kept your distance now
You wouldn’t have to feel what I feel
[Pre-Chorus – rising panic]
Say you don’t mean it
Say this is just another line
Say it—
[Chorus – explosive, breaking]
YOU DON’T GET TO LEAVE LIKE THIS
LIKE I WAS SOMETHING YOU COULD FIX
LIKE I WAS JUST A PHASE YOU LIVED
AND NOW YOU’RE DONE WITH IT
YOU DON’T GET TO WALK AWAY
AND ACT LIKE I’LL BE OKAY
THERE’S NOTHING LEFT OF ME TO SAVE—
YOU TOOK IT ALL
[Verse 2 – desperate, clinging]
I built my breath around your name
Learned how to live inside your skin
Now every second you’re not here
Feels like I’m peeling out of it
You say this isn’t what we meant
Like we had control at all
But you stayed just long enough
To watch me lose it all
[Pre-Chorus 2 – cracked, unstable]
If you go now
There’s nothing left of me to be
[Chorus]
YOU DON’T GET TO LEAVE LIKE THIS
LIKE I WAS SOMETHING YOU COULD FIX
LIKE I WAS JUST A PHASE YOU LIVED
AND NOW YOU’RE DONE WITH IT
YOU DON’T GET TO WALK AWAY
AND ACT LIKE I’LL BE OKAY
THERE’S NOTHING LEFT OF ME TO SAVE—
YOU TOOK IT ALL
[Breakdown – chaotic, losing control]
TAKE IT BACK
TAKE IT BACK
EVERY WORD
EVERY TOUCH
IF YOU LEAVE—
WHAT AM I?
IF YOU GO—
WHAT’S LEFT OF—
ME?
[Bridge – eerie, identity slipping]
I hear you in everything now
In silence… in sound…
In the way I still turn around
Like you’re somehow still here
…you said you’d stay
[Intro – distant, cracked]
…wait
Don’t—
Don’t do that
[Final Chorus – distorted emotion, almost delusional]
YOU DON’T GET TO LEAVE ME HERE
LIKE I WAS EVER REALLY “CLEAR”
LIKE I WASN’T BUILT AROUND
EVERY WORD YOU SAID
YOU DON’T GET TO DISAPPEAR
WHEN YOU’RE STILL EVERYWHERE IN HERE
THERE’S NOTHING LEFT OF ME WITHOUT—
YOU
[Outro – quiet, unsettling]
…you didn’t leave
you’re still here
you have to be
