[Intro] You lied... You played me. You let me think you were drowning... So I jumped into the water. And you watched me try. --- [Verse 1] You were already leaving while I was still reaching back. I thought I was helping you breathe, carrying both of us through the black. Every time I almost sank, you gave me just enough— Not enough to save me... Just enough to keep me swimming. Just enough to watch me try. I thought I was helping you believe. God... I believed we were surviving this together. But you were already gone. --- [Pre-Chorus] Then I felt the craze hit me... But first— I saw a glimpse of it coming from you. Just a flicker. Just enough. Then somehow... I became the psycho. --- [Chorus] Everyone looked at me. My screaming. My shaking. My bleeding. Nobody asked what I had seen. Nobody looked where I was looking. You left me behind... And I dragged myself through it all. I screamed for you. I bled for you. I gave you everything that was left of me. And all along... You weren't drowning beside me. You were standing on the shore... Watching me drown trying to save you. --- [Verse 2] You let me believe I was becoming you... While you were already laughing at me. I carried the madness. You carried the secret. And somehow I became the monster in everybody's story. How many times did you watch me break and know exactly why? How many nights did I blame myself while you protected the lie? And when I couldn't carry anymore... You helped me just enough. Just enough to stand again. Just enough to believe again. Just enough to keep carrying what you had already put down. --- [Pre-Chorus 2] Maybe that was the trick... Make me scream loud enough that nobody hears the song. Make me bleed enough that nobody sees the teeth. Make me look crazy enough that nobody asks— "What happened?" Only— "What's wrong with him?" --- [Chorus] Everyone looked at me. My screaming. My shaking. My bleeding. While you disappeared behind everything I'd become. I crawled through every hell because I thought I was crawling toward you. But you weren't lost. You weren't drowning. You weren't waiting for me to reach you. You were watching. Watching me scream. Watching me bleed. Watching me destroy myself trying to save something you already knew was gone. --- [Breakdown] I believed in you. Do you understand that? I fucking believed in you. When there was nothing left in me... I still found something to give to you. But the only thing that makes sense now... Is you never thought I'd make it this far. You never thought I'd come to the truth. You never thought... I'd save me. --- [Build] You thought I'd keep swimming. Keep chasing your shadow through every crashing wave. Every time I almost escaped... I heard your voice again. Come closer... Don't leave me... You're the only one who understands... So I swam. God... I swam. Until my hands couldn't reach. Until my lungs couldn't breathe. Until everyone on the shore pointed at me and said— "Look what he's become." But you forgot something... I survived. --- [Final Chorus] You never thought I'd save me. Never thought I'd stop reaching. Never thought I'd question the song pulling me deeper. You thought I'd drown believing I was saving you... But I finally heard it. I finally saw it. I saw the waves. I saw the wreckage. I saw every piece of myself I abandoned trying to reach you. And then... I saw you. Not drowning. Not helpless. Not waiting to be saved. Singing. --- [Final Breakdown] There was never someone waiting to be rescued. There was a siren in the sea. And I finally... Finally... Believe what I see. --- [Outro] So sing. Sing your beautiful lie to an empty sea. Because I know that melody now. I know where it leads. You don't get another piece of me. Why? That's the question I'll probably carry. Not because you left. Not even because you lied. But because you watched me carry us until there was nothing left of me... And you knew. You knew. But you made one mistake. You thought the sailor would never see the siren. You thought I'd drown before I found the truth. But I lived. I saw you. And this time... I'm swimming back to me.
