Don’t Come Back in Dreams

Verse 1

I turned your picture to the wall

But I still see you in it all

Every shadow, every light

Feels like you’re here, just out of sight

Your voice is stuck inside my head

Saying words you never said

And I hate the way it feels

Like losing you’s not even real

Pre-Chorus

I keep reaching out into the dark

But you’re just a ghost inside my heart

Chorus

Don’t come back in dreams just to leave me

Don’t say the things I needed you to say

‘Cause I wake up drowning in the feeling

That you’re gone all over again

I’m breaking in places you touched me

Every memory cuts like it’s brand new

If loving you means losing me slowly

Then why do I still run back to you?

Verse 2

I tried to hate you just enough

To finally let go of your love

But even anger fades to blue

And somehow leads me back to you

Your name still burns under my skin

Like a war I’ll never win

And no one knows the hell it is

To miss someone that doesn’t exist

Pre-Chorus

If I scream, would you hear my pain?

Or am I talking to the rain?

Chorus

Don’t come back in dreams just to leave me

Don’t say the things I needed you to say

‘Cause I wake up drowning in the feeling

That you’re gone all over again

I’m breaking in places you touched me

Every memory cuts like it’s brand new

If loving you means losing me slowly

Then why do I still run back to you?

Bridge (huge power moment)

I gave you all my breath, my soul, my fire

Now I’m just ashes of a love that never stayed

You took the best of me and called it “timing”

But I’m the one who pays

(soft drop)

So tell me how to forget

When I don’t want to yet…

Final Chorus (big emotional climax)

Don’t come back in dreams just to break me

Don’t make me feel like you’re still mine

‘Cause every morning is a heartbreak

I have to relive one more time

I’m falling with nothing to catch me

No closure, no end, no truth

If loving you was my only mistake

Then why does it still feel like proof?

Outro (soft, fragile)

So don’t come back…

Unless you’re gonna stay…

…this time.