**Lyrics By rvix86** © Copyright 2025 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are seeing this song anywhere besides SUNO, know that it is illegally being stolen and placed on a site that I did NOT give my permission for my work to be used. I wrote these lyrics and this is MY song. Any stolen work of mine will be reported. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You show up in the cracks of my good days Like black mold creeping in the hallway Got a smile made of venom and old praise Whisperin’ lies in my mirror like foreplay I lit sage, I lit flames, I said your name Too many times, now I can’t kill the stain You're a ghost in the frame of my memories Slick talk, sweet rot, my disease Trynna dance in the sun, but you pull me back under Every laugh that I fake sounds like distant thunder You were gone, now you’re here like a shadow I breathe Still fightin’ just to make your voice leave You don’t live here no more, but you haunt my head Like footsteps in the hall when I’m safe in bed You’re the chill in the room when it’s warm and bright I keep climbin’ toward the light, but you black out my sky I won’t drown in your echo, won’t carry your load I’m exorcisin’ you, baby — like black mold Every time I laugh, you’re there, twitchin’ Like a glitch in my joy, like a cold premonition Put chains in my mind, kept twistin’ But I ain’t your cagebird — I’ve gone missin’ You’re the smoke in my lungs when I try to breathe deep The nightmare I fight when I fall asleep But I found the salt, found the fire, found the fight I’m walkin’ barefoot through your ashes tonight Trynna dance in the sun, but you pull me back under Every smile that I wear tastes like bitter thunder But I’m stronger than the curse that you carved in me And your whisper’s just static in a new melody You don’t live here no more, but you haunt my head Like footsteps in the hall when I’m safe in bed You’re the chill in the room when it’s warm and bright I keep climbin’ toward the light, but you black out my sky I won’t drown in your echo, won’t carry your load I’m exorcisin’ you, baby — like black mold I scrubbed your name from my skin, from my spine But you linger like mildew in the corners of my mind I ain't your ghost town, I ain't your grave I ain’t the girl you cursed — I’m the one you couldn’t save You don’t live here no more, but you haunt my head Like footsteps in the hall when I’m safe in bed You’re the chill in the room when it’s warm and bright But I’m blazin’ through the dark, gonna steal back my light You can rattle your chains — I’m breakin’ the hold I’m reclaimin’ my soul, you’re just black mold
