(Intro – light guitar riff, bouncing bass)
You still say my name like a warning sign
Like I’m frozen there in a different time
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(Verse 1 – steady, conversational groove)
You remember every fault I wore
Like a jacket I outgrew before
Every word that I got wrong
Every night I stayed too long
You keep folders in your mind
Old mistakes you’ve organized
But you don’t see what survived
You just quote my former life
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(Pre-Chorus – lift, building tension)
I was learning, I was bending
You were watching, never listening
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(Chorus – big, bright, anthemic)
I’m not the version you remember
Not the ghost you hold against me
I burned that skin in late September
Built a spine where doubt used to be
And when I finally got it together
You went quiet, conveniently
Guess I outgrew your forever
You don’t recognize me
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(Verse 2 – a little more bite, still upbeat)
You don’t clap when I get it right
Only echo when I used to fight
Like I owe you every scar
Like that’s all I ever was
You knew chaos, knew the fall
You knew nothing else at all
Now the silence says enough
You preferred me coming undone
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(Pre-Chorus – variation)
I was shifting, I was changing
You stayed still, narrating
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(Chorus – full energy)
I’m not the version you remember
Not the ghost you hold against me
I burned that skin in late September
Built a spine where doubt used to be
And when I finally got it together
You went quiet, conveniently
Guess I outgrew your forever
You don’t recognize me
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(Bridge – breakdown, punchy phrasing)
You liked me better incomplete
Easier to keep beneath
All your quiet guarantees
That I’d never leave that scene
But I did
Yeah I did
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(Final Chorus – lift + adlibs)
I’m not the version you remember
Not the weight you pinned on me
I cut the ties, I changed the weather
Now I move differently
And when I finally got it together
You disappeared so easily
Guess I outgrew your forever
Now I recognize me
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(Outro – stripped back, confident)
You still say my name like a warning sign
I just smile now… wrong place, wrong time
ChucklesMcnerd
