Stone Heart Trolls

Trisha and Sherri under blanket caves

Flashlight kingdoms, little girl brave

Laughin’ at the monsters underneath the bridge

Swore if trolls came close they’d run together, kids

Pinky promises in the midnight dark

Trading little secrets, carving up their hearts

Thought the world was magic, thought the world was kind

Never knew the monsters grew in human minds

New school hallways split us into different worlds

You found a cruel crowd, I stayed a quiet girl

Then one night the shadows started calling out my name

And every secret weapon sounded just the same

Trolls aren’t born beneath the bridges

Stone grows slow inside their chest

Every laugh cuts off the feeling

Till there’s almost nothing left

You knew every hidden scar

Every place that hurt the most

Now I’m barely here at all

And you’re a troll with a heart of stone

Fake accounts and whispers glowing in the dark

Screenshots burning little holes into my heart

Everybody laughing like a blood-red fairytale

While I disappear behind another pale excuse

“How’d they know?” I cried into my bedroom floor

But somewhere deep inside I think I always knew before

Only childhood angels know where all the secrets hide

Only old best friends can cut that deep inside

Every cruel word made your soul a little cold

Brick by brick your gentle heart was turning into stone

And I faded smaller every single night

A ghost behind a glowing light

Trolls aren’t born beneath the bridges

Stone grows slow inside their chest

Every laugh cuts off the feeling

Till there’s almost nothing left

You knew every hidden scar

Every place that hurt the most

Now I’m barely here at all

And you’re a troll with a heart of stone

We used to scream at fairy tales

Now you became the thing we feared

You typed the words nobody should hear

“No one wants you here”

And after all the tears went dry

After all the damage done

There were never really winners

Just two little girls undone

Trolls aren’t born beneath the bridges

They’re made somewhere along the way

One turns cold enough to hurt you

One just slowly fades away

Now the blankets and the flashlights

Feel like stories someone stole

All that’s left of us together

Is a ghost… and a heart of stone