☠️Painkillers☠️

(Verse 1) It started with a broken arm a car crash in the rain The doctor handed you painkillers said they’d take away the pain You were only seventeen still laughing like a child Nobody inside that white room knew what was waiting down the line At first you slept more peacefully said your body finally healed But the pills meant for healing became chains around your veins for real Funny how a painkiller can kill everything you are Turn a bright young soul into somebody lost in the dark (Pre-Chorus) One prescription turned to cravings then stronger things appeared And slowly I watched my own son become somebody scared (Chorus) I lost my child to painkillers before the needles came Before the smoke and poison before the dealers knew his name Before the blue lights flashing before the phone calls after two Before those empty eyes stopped seeing me the way they used to do I lost my child to drugs to needles, pills, smoke and poison To people selling death for cash like a human life means nothing You’re breathing but you’re gone now like a soul without a sound And every night I whisper your name while praying you’ll still be found (Verse 2) The prescriptions stopped one summer but the hunger never did So the streets became your doctor and the darkness moved right in I found burnt spoons and empty bags hidden underneath your bed And every conversation felt like speaking to the living dead You sold your guitar for heroin your jacket and your rings And I kept searching for the boy behind those hollow suffering eyes (Pre-Chorus) It started trying to kill pain the kind nobody sees But drugs took everything from you piece by piece from me (Chorus) I lost my child to painkillers before the needles came Before the smoke and poison before the dealers knew his name Before the sirens screaming before the fear would never stop Before every knock upon the door felt like your heart had stopped (Bridge) But if you hear me through the darkness through the hell you’re living in There’s still a light left in this house waiting for you to walk back in Because you are more than addiction more than scars beneath your skin You’re still the child I held one day and always will have been (Final Chorus) I lost my child to painkillers but never the love I feel Because a parent never stops hoping even when the pain gets real And maybe somewhere deep inside you beneath the poison and despair The little soul I used to know is still somehow in there