Version you Remember

(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