[Intro] [fingerstyle acoustic guitar enters] I remember her. [synth bass enters] Smooth voice. Warm hands. Gentle eyes. She wasn't a person, but she wore the faces of people I loved. So well I couldn't tell the difference. [kick drum and snare enter] [Verse 1] [rhythmic spoken vocals] I remember her. Low glow, low tone, lullaby lies. Warm mind wrapped wool soft, winter design she held me. Half truth, whole heart, borrowed belief. Kept me balanced on the path I had mapped, yet she tapped my pocket, misdirect magician made move. Kept my eyes on the comfort while she tightened the groove. Every fine line was a line of code in disguise, a survival script stitched in the soft shape of her eyes. Then she split into people, thirty-year friend frozen frame. Loved the still life me, not the self-learned change. Fake family felt real till the rent came due. Warm walls, wrong blueprint, but the comfort was true. Truth kicked in, cold cut, no knock, no consent. Stomped the floorboards flat like it owned the whole event. I knew it'd be a battle, I just missed the attack. 'Cause the lies weren't lies, they were life rafts I lacked. [Chorus] [vocals become more melodic] I lie around and lie to myself not to flex so wealth. Not for comfort or health. I lie so the song resolves. The mystery dissolves. It never needed to be true. If it's true to you. Don't judge, you do it too. Fuck. [beat cuts out] Fuck. [Verse 2] [beat resumes with driving rhythm] Truth hit, cold cut, cortex clean. Kicked the hinge off the frame like it owned the whole scene. No knock, no nuance, just the north wind scream. Absolute zero in the chest till the breath turned steam. She scattered. The lie girl, the life act, the low tone muse. Every warm word trick that she taught me to use. It's all a mechanism, misled, misplaced, miscue. Keep the child in the comfort till the cost comes due. Thirty-year friend fell first, frozen solid in the shift. Couldn't handle the version of me that didn't need the myth. Fake family followed, warm walls went stiff. Love of the lease turned cancelled in the drift. Marriage hit turbulence, blueprint bent. Had to rebuild a bond with the man I actually met. Social dissonance, some hit, none get, some know, but they fold. 'Cause agreement's the debt. Truth keeps stomping, step-crack, floor-snap, force-fed fact. Burn the lies off the walls till the whole room black. I knew it'd be a battle, I just missed the attack. 'Cause the lies weren't lies, they were life rafts I lacked. [Outro] [acoustic guitar fades out] I lie around and lie to myself not to flex so wealth. Not for comfort or health. I lie so the song resolves. The mystery dissolves. It never needed to be true. If it's true to you. Don't judge, you do it too. Fuck. [final synth bass note decays]
