Borrowed Heart
By ReGrasp
(Song Borrowed Heart)
VERSE 1 (sung)
Lying in your shadow, thought I found a home,
Found me when I fractured, made the weakness known,
Said you came to save me, but you needed me to fall,
Every time I stood up, you were reaching for it all.
Saw my strength as something you could take and reframe,
Turned my open nature into leverage for gain,
I was trying to heal, you were shaping the role,
Every piece I gave you took a piece of my soul.
CHORUS (sung)
You weren’t kind, you were in control,
I wasn’t loved, I was used to keep you whole,
What felt like care was just your need,
A borrowed heart that learned to bleed.
VERSE 2 (sung)
You mastered silence, never said a word,
Still you said the most without it being heard,
Needed you close but you chose the space,
Turned distance into power, kept me in my place.
Timed it for the moments I was weakest inside,
Gave a little comfort, then you pulled it aside,
Just enough to keep me never breaking away,
Then you took it back the second I was okay.
CHORUS (sung – bigger)
You weren’t kind, you were in control,
I wasn’t loved, I was used to keep you whole,
What felt like care was just your need,
A borrowed heart that learned to bleed.
VERSE 3 (rap)
This wasn’t love, it was dressed as possession,
Mercy in the mask but control in expression,
Held me like something fragile in your hands,
While you slowly replaced everything I am.
Every time I stood, tried to find my ground,
You would pull me back before I figured it out,
Not to fix what was breaking deep within
Just to keep me exactly where I’d always been.
BRIDGE (stripped → rising)
I stood up… I broke out…
Not the same, not who I was now,
Not yet whole, still finding the form,
But I’m not yours to reshape or perform.
You loaned out kindness with a cost underneath,
Every moment of relief had a hook in the teeth,
Now I see what you were holding this whole time
It wasn’t me you saved… it was your own decline.
FINAL CHORUS (full / layered)
You weren’t kind, you were in control,
I wasn’t loved, I was used to keep you whole,
What felt like care was a hidden need,
A borrowed heart that learned to bleed.
You weren’t love, you were weight I held,
Something I carried while I slowly fell,
And all that’s left of what we made
Is something I survived... never saved
