“Golden Ghosts”

I used to dream in color when I looked at you

Now all I see is static cutting through

You were heaven wrapped in broken vows

Now I’m singing to a silence I won’t allow

We carved a future on the back of lies

Held hands through fire, never asked why

Smiled for pictures, cried in the dark

Two souls drifting from the start

But I still remember the sound of your laugh

Now it’s echoes in a hallway of the past

If I could speak to the kid I was back then

I’d say “She’s not your future. Just your end.”

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“You stole my years, you kissed my pain

Loved me slow, then left me drained

Golden days we never claimed

Now I sing your name in vain

You burned the bridge, I built the song

Still I miss you when I know it’s wrong

If this is love, it’s bittersweet

A war I lost but won on beat”

I gave you verses, you gave me lies

Played the victim while I internalized

All the nights I swallowed truth like glass

Now I spit fire, watch the bridges collapse

You were my calm in the eye of the storm

Till I realized calm can still deform

Golden days? More like golden chains

Wrapped around dreams that died in vain

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“Golden ghosts, we haunt this track

I want you gone but I want you back!”

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“You stole my years and taught me rage

Turned a love song into a stage

You held me close then dropped the blade

Now I dance inside the mess we made

Golden ghosts and shattered vows

But I’m the fire, I’m burning now

This is love, this is war

This is me, not us, anymore”

“You were the best mistake I couldn’t keep

Now I let your name fade as I fall asleep”