[Verse 1] My brother broke rules, I broke skin That’s how both of us survived back then He slammed doors, got caught, got blamed I stayed quiet and got called the same He got suspended, made a scene Everybody knew exactly what he means I filled notebooks nobody read With all the things stuck in my head ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] He was fire in the front yard I was smoke behind the walls Funny how everybody noticed him And nobody noticed me at all ⸻ [Chorus] He was the loud one I was the ghost Both of us drowning Just doing it different most He fought everybody I fought myself Nobody taught us how to ask for help He left wreckage in every room I buried mine where nobody looked Same house Same childhood Same damage Different wounds ⸻ [Verse 2] They searched his room, found weed again Had meetings, lectures, consequences then Meanwhile I was upstairs crying alone Writing pain into another notebook page He got anger I got shame Different masks but the same damn flame Everybody asked him what was wrong Nobody asked me for years that long ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] Because pain with volume gets attention Pain with silence gets ignored ⸻ [Chorus] He was the loud one I was the ghost Both of us bleeding Just from different wounds the most He fought teachers He fought rules I fought mirrors And my own thoughts too Same house Same childhood Same damage Different wounds ⸻ [Bridge] And here’s the part that makes me mad People think he had it worse Because his pain was easier to see Like visible damage somehow hurts more But every night I took that house And turned it inward Turned it on me While everybody watched him burn Nobody noticed me bleeding quietly ⸻ [Breakdown] (angry, tension,) You were rebellion I was collapse You exploded I disappeared And somehow Neither one of us got saved ⸻ [Final Chorus] You were the loud one I was the ghost Two kids carrying things No child should carry most You screamed your pain I swallowed mine And both of us paid for it over time Same house Same childhood Same damage Different scars And maybe that’s why We’re still trying to find out Who we are ⸻ [Outro] I don’t carry you like a ghost Because you’re gone I carry you like a ghost Because part of us Never left that house
