would you love me

Lyrics

if misery was a paid activity
I would be a millionaire
If I was rich, would it set me free?
Or just buy more reasons to leave?

Verse
Would you love me again?
Would you go back to calling me baby?
But the promises were paper-thin—
a way to pull me in, to cage me.
You don’t trap someone with harsh words and criticism,
false hope and warm embraces.
make me feel safe like a child tucked into bed,
then steal the quiet that I learned to defend.

Chorus
’Cause you take a part of me—
like a thief in softest light.
If misery was a commodity,
I’d be trading it just to make it right.
But I’m trapped inside of me,
in your cage of false belief,
why do you need to break me?
Tell me—what do you need from me?

Verse
you Take me to places I never wanted to be,
show me the darkness I never needed to see.
You speak in velvet, but it cuts through my mind
turning my yes into a bruises they will never find
False belief—an anchor that that pulls me down
and I’m learning how to disappear.

[Bridge]you get inside mind to the dark places
Not to shed light,
but to find the words that can break me—
how you forsake me to cause the ache you like.
You call it love,
but it cuts like a knife.

Chorus
You take a part of me—
and leave me smaller than before.
If misery was a commodity,
I’d be Wall Street’s open door.
But I’m trapped inside of me,
in your cage of false belief,
why do you need to break me?
Take your lies off me—leave me free.

Outro
if I was rich Would you love me again?
would you go back to calling me baby?
I missed you like a lesson learned too late—
now I choose the quiet over the cage you made.