Voices like you

I hear you breathing when I’m alone,

you whisper sweet things through a dial tone,

you tell me lies dressed up as truth,

I’m not sure if you’re me or you.

You said I’d never make it out alive,

so I learned to sleep with knives,

cutting shadows just to feel,

wonder if the pain is real.

Every mirror’s got your face,

I can’t tell what to erase,

your love’s a ghost that loves to choke,

you laugh each time my spirit broke.

You said, “Trust me, I know best,”

so I carved your name into my chest,

every heartbeat sounds like blame,

you feed my guilt, then call my name.

You — you talk in my head when I’m quiet,

you tell me to start another riot,

I can’t tell what’s real or desire,

you set my thoughts on fire.

I — I’m dancing with my fears,

I’m bleeding through my tears,

and every time I try to choose —

I just end up loving you.

You smile when I break my bones,

you kiss me in undertones,

every word’s a lullaby,

but it sounds like “say goodbye.”

You say “they’ll never understand,”

so I let you take my hand,

we spin in circles in my head,

you say “we’re safer here instead.”

You say, “Pain’s just proof you’re mine,”

so I drink your venom, call it wine,

you wear my sanity like skin,

and crawl beneath where light’s grown thin.

You — you talk in my head when I’m quiet,

you tell me to start another riot,

I can’t tell what’s real or desire,

you set my thoughts on fire.

I — I’m dancing with my fears,

I’m bleeding through my tears,

and every time I try to choose —

I just end up loving you.

[Bridge] (slow, eerie whisper builds into chaos)

I built a house inside my brain,

you keep repainting it with pain,

you said I’m safe if I don’t speak,

but silence cuts much deeper, weak.

And I — I let you stay,

you said you’d leave, but not today,

you said the world would never care —

so I became your love affair.

You said “die,” I said “maybe,”

you said “cry,” I said “save me,”

you said “mine,” I said “fine,”

now your voice is carved in mine.

You — you talk in my head when I’m quiet,

you tell me to start another riot,

I can’t tell what’s real or desire,

you set my thoughts on fire.

I — I’m losing to your truth,

I’m trapped inside my youth,

and every time I think I’m through —

I just end up loving you.

[Outro] (fading, soft and unsettling)

You hum my thoughts to sleep,

promises you’ll always keep,

but I know when I close my eyes —

you’ll be waiting to come alive.