Lyrics

I feel you breathing when I sleep
Your voice still carved into my teeth
Every thought feels secondhand
I don’t remember who I am

You call my silence being strong
I call it learning how to rot
I wear your fingerprints like scars
You don’t need chains, you left a mark

You don’t raise your voice
You don’t have to scream
You just tighten the rope
Around everything

You’ve got a noose around my neck
Not to kill me, just to check
How much pressure I can take
Before there’s nothing left
You say it’s love, I feel the truth
Every breath belongs to you
I’m still alive, just abused
I’m hanging here inside your noose

You fed me comfort like a drug
Just enough to keep me numb
Taught me how to doubt my pain
Then blamed me when I broke again

I learned to smile on command
Disappear at your demand
If I resist, you pull me close
Remind me who still holds the rope

You don’t need fists
You don’t need scars
You just hollow me out
Till I fall apart

You’ve got a noose around my neck
Not to kill me, just to check
How much pressure I can take
Before there’s nothing left
You say it’s love, I feel the truth
Every breath belongs to you
I’m still alive, just abused
I’m hanging here inside your noose

Tighten it slow
So I won't die
Call this peace
Call it my life
If I disappeared
You don’t lose
You still own
What’s left to use

I won’t scream
I won’t beg
You already won inside my head

You had a noose around my neck
Not to kill me, just to bend
Every nerve until I break
And thank you for the damage
You said it was love
I believed you
I lost myself just trying to prove
I deserved the air you let me use
I almost died inside your noose