**Verse 1**
I mapped your face like a crime scene
Memorized every line
If I close my eyes long enough
I can make you mine
I keep your voice in a jar
Play it back when I can’t sleep
It sounds like mercy in the daylight
At night it cuts too deep
I don’t wash the shirt you left
It still smells like your throat
I press it to my mouth sometimes
Like that’ll keep you close
**Pre-Chorus**
Everyone says, “Let it go.”
Like you’re a habit I can quit
But you’re stitched into my nervous system
And I can’t rip out of it
**Chorus**
You live in my head rent-free
Rotting the walls from inside
I replay every word you said
Till the truth starts to slide
I know you don’t want me now
I know you made it clear
But I’d rather haunt your shadow
Than learn to live without you here
**Verse 2**
I scroll through pictures of your smile
Until it doesn’t look like mine
I zoom in close to strangers’ hands
Just to see if they’re intertwined
I count the hours since we spoke
Like numbers might bring relief
But obsession is a language
And I’m fluent in the grief
You said I need to move on
Like it’s a train I missed
But I’m chained to the platform
With your name on my wrists
**Pre-Chorus**
They say love should set you free
But freedom feels like death to me
If it means you’re gone
**Chorus**
You live in my head like a fever
Burning holes through sleep
Every time I start to heal
You’re the wound I keep
I know you’ve found somebody new
I know I should let go
But I’d rather be your ghost
Than be nobody you know
**Bridge (whispered, unraveling)**
If I can’t have your body
I’ll settle for your pain
If I can’t have your future
I’ll replay yesterday
I don’t want to forget you
I don’t want to be okay
Because loving you is the only thing
That makes the dark obey
**Breakdown (fractured, desperate)**
I drive past your street at night
With the headlights off
Convince myself it’s closure
But it’s just another loss
I don’t want peace
I don’t want clean
I want the version of you
That still wanted me
**Final Chorus (desperate, hollow)**
You live in my head like a grave
I keep digging deeper down
If I bury you completely
There’ll be nothing left around
I know this isn’t healthy
I know this isn’t right
But hopeless looks like loyalty
When I’m alone at night
**Outro**
You moved on.
I stayed.
And somewhere in between
I disappeared.
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