Dead to Me

You left your keys on the kitchen table

Like you knew you wouldn't need them again

Bills on the fridge, our names on the cable

Now it's just mine written in red

Wine stains on the couch from another fight

You slammed the door, said "You'll be fine"

I watched your taillights bleed into the night

Didn't know that was our flatline

I kept chasing every "maybe" that you'd give me

Like a patient begging doctors just to fix me

But you were pulling every line out of the machine

Now I finally see what that means

You're dead to me, no pulse, no history

Just a face I used to know in my memory

Like a name carved deep in a cemetery

You're gone, and I don't need your sympathy

I buried every promise where you lied to me

So don't come back, you're dead to me

Your jacket still hangs by the front door

But it doesn't hurt like it did last week

I swept your side of the bed to the cold floor

Found the notes you wrote that you didn't mean

Your friends keep texting like "We should talk"

They wanna drag me through your autopsy

But I've got nothing left I wanna unlock

Your storyline is not my body

I burned the playlist that we used to drive with

Turned up something new 'til it drowned out our sirens

You always needed me to play survivor

While you lit the match and watched the fire

You're dead to me, no pulse, no history

Just a face I used to know in my memory

Like a name carved deep in a cemetery

You're gone, and I don't need your sympathy

I buried every promise where you lied to me

So don't come back, you're dead to me

I won't send another text you'll never read

Won't bleed out just to make you feel relieved

You turned love into a hospital bed

Pulled the cord and then you left me for dead

Now I'm walking out, no chains on my feet

Heart still bruised but it still beats

You're just chalk on the ground where we used to be