Teeth Under The Halo

**Verse I (Clean / restrained)**

You lived in the quiet behind my eyes

Every word you left became a lie

I held your weight like it was mine

Called it love, called it time

You spoke in heat, then froze me out

Left me guessing what I was about

I bent myself until I fit

Inside the spaces where you quit

**Pre-Chorus (Clean → Grit)**

I tried to stay soft, tried to believe

But you only fed on what you could bleed

**Chorus (Clean Lead)**

I loved you like a fault in me

Like pain was proof you’d never leave

I burned my hands just to feel close

You wore a halo—I saw the teeth

I stayed too long

I stayed too deep

I stayed until I hated me

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**Verse II (Clean / darker)**

You praised my scars, ignored my voice

Called control a careful choice

You drank the calm out of my chest

Then asked why I couldn’t rest

I learned your moods, I learned your tells

How to survive inside your hell

I shrank myself to keep you tall

That wasn’t love—I see it now

**Pre-Chorus II (Half-scream)**

You don’t get credit for my pain

Just because you learned my name

**Chorus II (Clean → Scream Tail)**

I loved you like a god I feared

(***I FEARED YOU***)

I loved you till I disappeared

(***I WAS GONE***)

I gave you blood, you gave me rules

(***YOU MADE ME SMALL***)

I see it now—

***YOU NEEDED ME WEAK***

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### **Breakdown / Bridge (FULL SCREAMS)**

***I WAS NOT HEALING***

***I WAS BEING DRAINED***

***YOU CALLED IT PATIENCE***

***I CALL IT CHAINS***

***YOU DON’T GET MY SLEEP***

***YOU DON’T GET MY NAME***

***YOU DON’T GET TO WEAR ME***

***LIKE I’M YOUR FUCKING FAITH***

*(drop — single sustained scream)*

***LET ME GO***

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**Final Chorus (Clean + Layered Screams)**

I loved you till my voice gave out

(***GAVE IT ALL***)

Till all I felt was doubt

(***ALL DOUBT***)

If this is mercy, I refuse

(***REFUSE***)

If this is heaven, cut me loose

I won’t stay soft

I won’t stay weak

I won’t die quiet at your feet

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**Outro (Clean, exhausted)**

No more halos

No more lies

I buried you

So I could survive