I’m still standing in the doorway,

like an animal that refuses to die

You ripped my heart out of my chest

and called it freedom

But freedom for whom? Not for me

I don’t want to live like this, all alone

You chose to leave and left me behind

The night lies heavy on the floor

like shattered glass after our last fight

I trample through the memories, cutting myself on everything we were

but I keep going anyway

because the pain is the only thing that still answers me

Chorus

Because you may have left

but I’m still standing in the storm

raging, furious, wounded

and I won’t let you be the end of me

You said you needed to breathe

but it was me who was suffocating

You said you needed to find yourself

but all I found was the emptiness you left behind

And it screams louder than you ever did

I don’t want to live like this, all alone

but I refuse to fall in silence

I rise, wounded, but alive

and scream until the sky splits open

Chorus

Because you may have left,

but I’m still standing in the storm—

raging, furious, wounded—

and I won’t let you be the end of me

I don’t want to live this lonely

you chose to leave and left me behind

And damn, it echoes inside me

as if you’d ripped out my whole damn ribcage

The floor is covered with your traces

even though you left a long time ago

I walk around in circles

as if I’m trying to wear myself away

until there’s nothing left to miss

I drink the night like poison

let it burn holes in me

just to feel something

that isn’t you

And every time I close my eyes

I see you walking away again

as if my brain is messing with me

because I didn’t let go

when you did

I don’t want to live this lonely

but I don’t know how to stop

holding on to someone

who’s already thrown me away

Chorus

Because you may have left

but I’m still standing in the storm

raging, furious, hurt

and I won’t let you be the end of me

You walked away as if I were air

as if everything we built

was something you could kick to pieces

on your way out the door

And now I’m standing here

not weak, just furious

Because you took my silence for weakness

my love for some damn blindness

But I’m getting up, shaky, and I’m screaming

and I swear you’ll hear me

all the way to where you fled

You chose to leave

but I’m still standing in the storm

wondering what went wrong