MUSIC FOR SALE

Every room became a courtroom
Every word a loaded gun
I learned to scan your silence
Before the damage had begun

You could turn a celebration
Into proof I didn’t care
I’d bring home pieces of myself
And somehow disappear in there

You wore pain like royalty
Sat high above the truth
And every time I tried to speak
You’d put me back on trial for you

Pre-Chorus
So I apologised for things
I didn’t even do
Just to keep the peace alive
Inside a house that never knew

Chorus
You rewrote reality
Until I questioned what was real
Turned my love into survival
Turned my heart into appeal

Warm hands one night
Cold eyes the next
I kept chasing who you were
Before the switch, before the wreck

And somewhere in the wreckage
Of who I used to be
I realised love should lift a soul
Not drain the life from me

Verse 2
Everything revolved around you
Your moods, your fears, your storms
My dreams sat in the corner
While you kept the spotlight warm

If I broke beneath the pressure
You said I was “too sensitive”
But a man can only drown so long
Before he forgets how to live

You could cry without repentance
Deflect without remorse
Make me feel ashamed for bleeding
From the wounds that you caused

Pre-Chorus
And every honest conversation
Ended with me to blame
You called control “protection”
While setting fire to my name

Chorus
You rewrote reality
Until I questioned what was real
Turned my love into survival
Turned my heart into appeal

Warm hands one night
Cold eyes the next
I kept chasing who you were
Before the switch, before the wreck

And somewhere in the wreckage
Of who I used to be
I realised love should lift a soul
Not drain the life from me

Bridge
I remember sitting exhausted
Staring at the bedroom wall
Thinking: “How did loving someone
Make me feel this small?”

Healthy love feels like breathing
Not walking on broken glass
Not begging for tiny moments
That disappear as fast

So I stopped trying to save you
By sacrificing me
Because love without truth
Is just another form of grief

Final Chorus
You rewrote reality
But I remember what was true
I was never hard to love
I was just dying next to you

And now the silence feels cleaner
Than the chaos ever did
Because peace became the first thing
I’d felt in years within my skin

Yeah, somewhere in the wreckage
I finally started to see
The man you tried to empty out
Still had a soul worth keeping