Cold Bones

I gave you my head like a room you could sleep in, left all my demons outside in the rain. You took every quiet place I was keeping, then left me alone with the echo and blame. I was the rope when your hands started shaking, the match in the dark when your sky wouldn’t start. I kept you alive while my mind started breaking, you kissed me goodbye with your teeth in my heart. Hook I went down like a lifeboat, kept you floating while I sank slow. You got shore, I got cold bones, you got whole, I got hollow. And the worst part ain’t losing, it’s knowing I chose it. I gave you my soul and you acted like you never owed it. You wore my love like a coat in the winter, then dropped it the second the sun hit your skin. I was praying your storm would get gentler, didn’t know I was the house you were burning within. I made peace with the panic, made a bed out the floor. You said “don’t leave me,” then showed me the door. Hook I went down like a lifeboat, kept you floating while I sank slow. You got shore, I got cold bones, you got whole, I got hollow. And the worst part ain’t losing, it’s knowing I chose it. I gave you my soul and you acted like you never owed it.