Teeth In The Dark

**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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