Dancing with a Bruise on the Dancefloor

Bruised on the Dancefloor Intro Your hands left ghosts under my skin I hear your voice when the lights go dim But the kick drum hits and I come alive You buried me once I survived You called it love, I called it war Dancing with a bruise on the dance floor You pulled me under, I hit the light Now I’m getting free in the dead of night Verse 1 Texas dust still on my shoes Small-town prayers and bad tattoos Late nights hiding where the red lights pour Spinning my hurt across the floor He touched my wrist like a handcuff click Sweet on his lips, then the switch came quick Glass in his tone, ice in his grin He kissed my mouth like a way in I learned his moods like weather maps The storm would hit, then fade to black He’d say my name like it was care Then leave his damage everywhere Pre-Chorus And I kept mistaking fear for fate kept letting hell call itself safe but the mirror cracked and I saw the truth there was no us just me surviving you Chorus You called it love, I called it war Dancing with a bruise on the dance floor You pulled me under, I hit the light Now I’m getting free in the dead of night No more blood in the bassline, no more tears in the glow You don’t get my body, you don’t get my soul You called it love, but I know the truth I was dying in the dark now I’m breaking loose Drop Chant / Vocal Chop Hands off Hands off me Not yours Not yours to keep Cut ties Breathe in, leave Dead love Can’t bury me Verse 2 Dog hair on my shirt, bills on the sink Built my own dream at the edge of the brink Tried to make a business with my own two hands He kept draining the blood from my plans Took my money, stole my pace Put cheap control all over my name Held me down with polished lies Turned my future into alibis Dark rooms, seedy neon glow Bodies moving where the lost girls go I danced half numb just to disappear Bass so loud I couldn’t hear my fear He turned every room to a crime-scene blur Then blamed the flames on her But a body knows when enough is enough And mine came back when I called his bluff Pre-Drop Red lights sirens in my chest Your shadow doesn’t own me yet I hear the break I feel the rush This is the sound of me getting up Big Drop Phrase This is not love This is escape This is my pulse This is my name Verse 3 Now I’m tucked away where the city shifts Oklahoma nights and survival scripts Hiding in plain sight, laying low Learning how to leave what tried to own my soul Still a mother first through every scar Three boys written in my heart like stars Two in uniform, standing tall and brave Proof I built something he could never take I’m proud in places that still ache bad Strong in ways he never had He thought he broke me, slowed my rise But I’m still here with fire in my eyes Bridge You can keep the broken frame I don’t need your counterfeit name Every scar you left behind is proof I made it out alive From Texas heat to an OKC night I carried my wreckage into the light And every step out of your control put another piece back in my soul Final Chorus You called it love, I called it war Dancing out the pain I can’t ignore You pulled me under, I found the light Now I’m taking back my life tonight No more blood in the bassline, no more fear in my lungs You don’t own my story, and you never won You called it love, but I know the truth I was dying in the dark now I’m breaking loose Outro Hands off me I remember my name Hands off me I’m not your cage Bruised on the dance floor but I still move free You buried me once but you never buried me