One-sided conversations

Verse 1 You’ve been building your defense At every table I don’t sit at Turning strangers into juries With a story dressed in all black You say I’m cold as closing doors Say I never tried to stay But there’s a truth you keep avoiding When you’re throwing dirt my way Pre-Chorus Funny how the loudest version Is the one that leaves you clean You talk like you’re the wounded one Like I’m some kind of unseen thing Chorus They’re all one-sided conversations Half a truth and half a lie You paint me as the villain While I’m silent on my side You swear I never loved you Say I never even cared But you don’t say the ways I showed up Or the nights I were still there You can try to win the crowd But you can’t rewrite what’s real They’re just one-sided conversations And I’m done defending how you feel Verse 2 You tell them I’m the reason Your world started caving in That I chipped away your health Like I was poison under skin You leave out all the shouting And the ways you’d twist the knife How you’d trade our private battles For applause about your life Pre-Chorus I hear it through the grapevine Every version that you spin But I won’t drag my dignity Through the mud you’re standing in Chorus They’re all one-sided conversations You control the narrative Handing out your heartbreak Like it’s proof of how you lived You say I never loved you Like love was something small But you don’t mention your reflection In the cracks along the wall Keep collecting sympathies From every listening ear They’re just one-sided conversations And I’m done standing trial out here Bridge I won’t scream across the county line I won’t beg them to believe Truth doesn’t need an audience It just waits for what it sees And change is coming like a slow sunrise You can feel it in the air You can keep your borrowed soldiers I don’t need them standing there Final Chorus They’re all one-sided conversations But the silence cuts both ways Every lie you ever told Is gonna circle back someday You can swear I never loved you You can drag me through the night But I know who I am now And I won’t dim to fit your fight Let ‘em hear your version loud I don’t need to shout mine They’re just one-sided conversations And the last word will be time