EXIT WOUND (Intro) They told me trauma leaves a mark Like a fingerprint Like proof you survived But nobody talks about the hole it leaves behind ⸻ (Verse 1) I learned how to smile with my teeth clenched shut Like a soldier posing for a photograph Everybody loves a resurrection Till they see what never came back There’s a cracked porcelain girl in the bathroom mirror With your ghost in her bloodstream still She keeps wiping steam from the glass Like clarity’s a choice of will And God I tried to be somebody’s heaven But my hands shake too much to hold Every “I’m okay” tastes chemical Every memory’s going mold Now the house sleeps with the TV on Like silence might expose the rot And I still know your number by heart Even after trying so hard to not ⸻ (Pre-Chorus) You can cauterize the surface You can stitch me skin-deep clean But the worst things that ever happened Never bled where they were seen ⸻ (Chorus — ) I’m your exit wound The part you never carry home The proof that something tore through you And kept going alone Now every room I walk into Still smells like smoke and you And I swear love doesn’t leave clean It rips right through Oh God I still wake up reaching out Like you might still be around But heartbreak isn’t what kills you It’s the exit wound ⸻ (Verse 2) There’s a girl downtown with my old lipstick Laughing like I used to laugh Before my nervous system learned How fast a good thing turns to ash I used to think rock bottom looked dramatic Black mascara, ambulance lights But sometimes it’s just doing dishes At 2 AM trying not to cry And everybody says “you’ll heal” Like time’s a surgeon with gentle hands But grief’s just a permanent language Spoken by people nobody understands So I wear my sadness expensive now Like a tailored black suit to the wake If suffering makes saints of us Then why do I still feel fake? ⸻ (Pre-Chorus) You can burn the letters You can wash the blood out of the sink But the body keeps every version Of the person that made it break ⸻ (Chorus —) I’m your exit wound The part you never carry home The proof that something tore through you And kept going alone Now every song sounds like your name Every city feels the same And I swear love doesn’t die slow It leaves in flames Oh God I still hear you in my head Like a choir of the dead And heartbreak isn’t what kills you It’s the exit wound ⸻ (Bridge — ) Nobody warns you The hardest part of leaving Is surviving long enough To watch yourself become someone else I keep finding pieces of me In people who don’t even know me Like shrapnel Like evidence Like aftermath ⸻ (Final Chorus) I’m your exit wound Still bleeding through the years A holy kind of damage Wrapped in smoke and souvenirs And if love was meant to save me Why’d it leave me this undone? Now I kiss like loaded guns And pray nobody runs Oh God I was somebody before this Before my pulse became a prison Now every beautiful thing hurts Like it knows what it’s missing And heartbreak isn’t what kills you It’s waking up After it didn’t.
