Poison

Verse 1

I was just a little kid with my shoes on the wrong feet
Drawing pictures in the kitchen, falling asleep in the backseat
I didn’t know that love could leave bruises you can’t see
Didn’t know the people meant to save me would be the reason I couldn’t breathe

You filled every room with fear and called it discipline
Taught me how to disappear before I learned how to fit in
Now every memory feels stained, every good thing feels fake
And I don’t remember who I was before you taught me how to break

Pre-Chorus

Everyone says children heal
Then tell me why I still feel sick
Why your voice still lives inside my head
Like I never really escaped it

Chorus

You put your poison in my bloodstream
Now it’s running through every part of me
I was just a child, I was too young to understand
But somehow I’m the one left with blood on my hands

You took the girl I used to be
Left a stranger staring back at me
Now I’m everything I swore I’d never be
A reflection of the people who destroyed me

Verse 2

Sometimes I catch myself sounding just like you
The same anger, same damage, same things I swore I’d never do
And it makes me sick to know you’re buried in my bones
No matter how far I run, I never leave you alone

You got to walk away and call it the past
But I’m the one carrying the weight of everything that happened
You broke me before I even knew my own name
And somehow I’m the one drowning in the shame

Bridge

What happened to that little girl?
The one who laughed too loud
The one who thought the world was good
The one who made her parents proud

I search for her in photographs
But she’s gone every time
Buried underneath the years
You stole one piece at a time

Final Chorus

You put your poison in my bloodstream
Now I don’t know where you end and I begin
I was just a child standing in the line of fire
Now I’m made of all the things I used to fear

And everybody tells me I’ll be okay someday
But they weren’t there when you took everything away
I’m still looking for the girl I used to be
And all I ever find is what’s left of me

Slow tempo, haunting piano, soft strings, intimate female vocals, sparse percussion, emotional build, beautful, sad, slow, fragile, cinematic atmosphere, raw and vulnerable delivery, dark and heartbreaking mood.