Off Key in Love

You said you loved me

But the way you said it cut my skin

Same mouth that praised me

Turned around and let the silence win

I kept receipts in my phone

Every promise

Every quote

Reading back the pretty words

Choking on the undertones

This ain’t love

This off-key kind of love

Got me singing to a stranger in your arms (oh)

If it’s love

Why I feel so small

Why I’m begging just to matter at all

Call it love

But it’s bruising my heart

Every “baby” just tearing me apart

If this is what you’re giving me as love

Then I don’t want love

You hold me gently

Then you question everything I say

You say I’m crazy

But you’re the one that keeps on changing ways

I dressed my pain in perfume

Smiled pretty in every room

Tried to fit inside your frame

While you kept on shifting rules

This ain’t love

This off-key kind of love

Got me singing to a stranger in your arms (yeah)

If it’s love

Why I feel so small

Why I’m begging just to matter at all

Call it love

But it’s bruising my heart

Every “baby” just tearing me apart

If this is what you’re giving me as love

Then I don’t want love

Maybe I’m hard to hold

But I’m not hard to choose

I’d rather sleep alone

Than be lying next to abuse (oh)

You can keep your halfway heart

And your halfway truth

’Cause I finally found the strength

To give that word back to you

This ain’t love

This off-key kind of love

Had me singing to a stranger in your arms

If it’s love

I should feel rebuilt

Not drowning in your shame and guilt

Call it love

But I’m walking away

I’ll save my heart for a kinder day

If this is what you’re giving me as love

Then I don’t want love (no)

If this is what you’re giving me as love

Then I don’t want love