Your Words are Echoes

(Verse 1) I brought you my darkness, the ghosts from the war, Begging for safe harbor right here on our floor. But you looked at my trauma and rolled both your eyes, "It's all in your head," just another disguise. I told you the thoughts almost took me away, You screamed, "What did I do to deserve this today!?!?"

(Chorus) "I work so I'll spend what I want," you declared, While bankruptcy crushed us, you showed you don't care. "I would leave if I had somewhere else I could go," A threat for a payout, a one-woman show. You demand all the grace, but you give me the blame, A "sweet Christian woman" who's playing a game.

(Verse 2) I funded your family, I funded your pride, While I couldn't buy gas for a ten-minute ride. "We paid for your kids," you threw back in my face, Just to fund your grown daughter and keep me in place. "This is your mess, not mine," you'd conveniently say, Manufacturing chaos, then walking away.

(Bridge) "You gave up on us, you gave up on you," A scratch-n-sniff text that was never quite true. I fought at the VA to heal and be free, But the man I became was a threat to your fee. "I have my own problems," you coldly replied, The day that my utility officially died.

(Outro) "YOU’RE LEAVING ME!" echoes right out to the street, The mask finally slips in the wake of defeat. "I know," I reply, as I walk through the door, Your words are just echoes. You don't own me no more.