Your Ruin

Lyrics

Verse 1
You kept the lights just low enough
So I'd forget what clear looked like
Every mirror bent my face
Into something easier to break
I learned to measure every breath
By how close you stood to rage
Tiptoe tightrope don't look down
Don't make a single sound

Pre-Chorus
You said I'd never make it out
Funny how I hear that now

Chorus
I am not your ruin anymore
Not the child you kept unsure
You don't get to haunt the ending
I outlived your kind of bending
I became someone you couldn't use
Every lie you lit the fuse
You tried to turn my bones to dust
Now I stand on top of what you crushed

Verse 2
You called it love with teeth behind it
Said I'd lose if I defied it
So I wore your words like skin
Till I started peeling them
There's a ghost of you in me
But it doesn't get to lead
Every step I take alone
Breaks another thing you own
You don't get to follow through
I amputated you

Chorus
I am not your ruin anymore
Not the child you kept unsure
You don't get to haunt the ending
I outlived your kind of bending
I became someone you couldn't use
Every lie you lit the fuse
You tried to turn my bones to dust
Now I stand on top of what you crushed

Bridge
I still flinch at open doors
Still hear footsteps in the floor
Still expect the worst to come
Still go quiet, still go numb
But I'm not there anymore
You don't get to live in me
You don't get to breathe for me
You don't get to keep a piece
I tore you out of me!

Chorus
I was everything you needed me to be
Small enough to disappear
Now look at me!
I am not your ruin anymore
I'm the thing you can't control
You don't get to touch this ending
I became what you were dreading
I'm happier than you'd ever been
Even with the marks you left
You tried to turn my bones to dust
Now I stand on top of what you crushed

Outro
There's no place for you in me
Just an empty memory
And I finally feel like
I was meant to be