Walking Red Flag

[Verse 1]
You came in sweet like a warning sign
Sugar on your teeth, venom in your smile
Said I was special, said I was safe
While you were counting every mistake

You dressed your control up as concern
Turned every lesson into something I learned
I bit my tongue till I tasted blood
Calling it love, calling it enough

You fed me truth in edited lines
Kept me guessing, crossing my mind
I shrank myself just to keep you calm
Set myself on fire to keep you warm

[Chorus]
You say you love me
But I’m no longer free
You have so many faces
A pocket full of aces
I used to be so headstrong
Now I feel I’m always wrong
How’d I get so off track?
Your a walking red flag
Your a walking red flag

[Verse 2]
You rewrite history mid-fight
Swear I’m the problem every time
You say “you’re crazy,” say “relax”
While you’re stacking up the facts

Every silence is a threat
Every word I say’s a test
I don’t scream, I calculate
How to breathe without setting you off again

I don’t recognize my reflection now
Second-guessing every vow
I apologize before I speak
Just in case you decide it’s me

You said I’d break without your hand
Funny how I still can stand
Every lie you called the truth
Left a bruise I had to prove

[Chorus]
You say you love me
But I’m no longer free
You have so many faces
A pocket full of aces
I used to be so headstrong
Now I feel I’m always wrong
How’d I get so off track?
Your a walking red flag
Your a walking red flag

[Bridge]
Love shouldn’t feel like I’m on trial
Like I’m guilty when you smile
If I have to beg for air
That’s not love, that’s a snare

You don’t break bones, you bend the truth
Tie my silence in a noose
I won’t wear your version of me
I’d rather burn than disappear quietly

[Verse 3]
Now I see it in the light
All the patterns, all the signs
Every “sorry,” every “wait”
Was another lock on the gate

You don’t get to rewrite me now
I found my voice, I broke it out
I don’t need you to feel whole
I take my power back, control

You call it love—I call it done
I’m not the damage you outrun
I walk away without a scar
That you don’t already have

[Chorus]
You say you love me
But I’m no longer free
You have so many faces
A pocket full of aces
I used to be so headstrong
Now I feel I’m always wrong
How’d I get so off track?
Your a walking red flag
Your a walking red flag
And I’m done

metal, Hybrid dark-pop / J-pop / metal / dubstep, female vocals. Clean, haunting verses over sparse synth pulses