You rewrote my reflection in the bathroom mirror Told me what I saw was never really there Drew new lines around my smile, made my laughter thinner Said my friends were poison, that they didn't care Your words like careful scissors, cutting thread by thread The tapestry of who I was unraveling instead I'm dancing on a tightrope made of your approval One wrong step and I'm falling through the floor These phantom threads you've wrapped around my wrists I feel them pulling but they don't exist You built a cage from whispered doubt and shame Now I'm the prisoner and the one to blame These phantom threads, phantom threads Holding me down with words you never said You're a master painter of alternative facts Every conversation is a work of art You sketch me smaller in each interaction Till I forget the size of my own heart Your love's a loan with interest I can't pay The debt keeps growing every single day I'm walking on eggshells made of broken promises Afraid to breathe too loud or dream too far These phantom threads you've wrapped around my wrists I feel them pulling but they don't exist You built a cage from whispered doubt and shame Now I'm the prisoner and the one to blame These phantom threads, phantom threads Holding me down with words you never said But phantom threads can't hold what isn't there And mirrors lie when the light's not fair I'm learning how to see through your design These hands were always, always mine These phantom threads are loosening their grip I see the tricks behind your magic tricks The cage you built from whispered doubt and shame Can't hold a woman who remembers her name These phantom threads, phantom threads Were only strong as the lies I fed You rewrote my reflection But the mirror's cracking now
