Straightjacket Love Song

Verse 1

I wrote your name on the wall in chalk

Right next to mine, where the shadows talk

They say you’re not real, but I still believe

You hold my hand every time I bleed

Pre-Chorus

They can strap me down, call it a phase

But you’re the calm in my manic maze

Chorus

This is my straightjacket love song

For the ghost that keeps me strong

They can’t see you, but you’re here tonight

Tangled in my mind like a lullaby fight

If loving you’s a symptom — I won’t heal right

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Verse 2

I hum our tune when the meds kick in

And trace your smile on my paper skin

The doctors ask why I still pretend

But how could they know how the silence ends?

Pre-Chorus

You’re the whisper in the padded dark

The match that lights my broken spark

Chorus

This is my straightjacket love song

For the voice that rights my wrongs

You kiss my scars from the inside out

When the world forgets me, you scream and shout

They call me crazy — but you have no doubt

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Bridge (spoken + sung)

“Maybe you’re not real…”

”…But you’re all I’ve got left.”

”…And that’s more than they ever gave me.”

(scream-layered vocal line)

So hold me tighter than the walls ever could!

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Final Chorus

This is my straightjacket love song

For the ghost I don’t belong

But if this cell is where I break apart

Then carve your name into my heart

Forever bound — in this padded art