Drama

[Intro] Yeah I figured it out Finally [Verse 1] You walked in like the answer To a question I was asking wrong Everything you brought with you Had a half-life about three weeks long I mistook the intensity For something that was real But intensity without direction Is just a very expensive feel Every conversation ended At the same address Somebody else's fault Somebody else's mess Every exit was a entrance To another episode And I kept watching like The resolution was still coming Down the road [Pre-Hook] I mapped the whole pattern About nine months in But I told myself the ending Would be different than the beginning It wasn't [Hook] You're just drama leading to trauma Every scene you write ends the same You're just drama leading to trauma And I finally learned To stop watching the flame Drama — to trauma I been in this theater too long Drama — to trauma Took the lesson Now I'm gone [Verse 2] Let me count the ways The ceiling fell Every time we tried to build something That could hold The way you turned my loyalty Into leverage The way the story always needed Someone to fold I was cast before I auditioned Didn't know the role You needed someone steady Just to make the chaos feel like home But the set was never stable And the script kept changing on me And the only way to win Was not to be the one Who stayed for the ending [Pre-Hook] I mapped the whole pattern About nine months in But I told myself the ending Would be different than the beginning It wasn't [Hook] You're just drama leading to trauma Every scene you write ends the same You're just drama leading to trauma And I finally learned To stop watching the flame Drama — to trauma I been in this theater too long Drama — to trauma Took the lesson Now I'm gone [Bridge] [Spoken, calm and clear] I don't say this with anger I say this with the specific peace Of someone who identified the pattern Named it accurately And walked out of the building You didn't do anything I didn't allow I just stopped allowing it That's the whole story [Final Hook] You're just drama leading to trauma Every scene you write ends the same You're just drama leading to trauma And I finally learned To stop watching the flame Drama — to trauma I been in this theater too long Drama — to trauma The review is in — Zero stars [Outro] Drama... Yeah... Every time... [Silence]