I Loved a Lie

I swept the floor of every dream

Picked up the glass that used to gleam

Your voice was never really there

Just echoes built from empty air

I dressed you up in perfect skin

Wrote stories just to lock you in

But all I touched was dust and thread

You weren't in love, I was misled

I loved a lie, and called it you

Painted storms in skies too blue

I broke myself to make you stay

But you were never here anyway

I kissed the wind, I held the shade

Believed in things I never made

Now silence answers when I cry

It tells the truth

I loved a lie

The photographs were never real

Just stitched illusions I could feel

You never said the words I claimed

I whispered both and wore the blame

You didn't hurt me, I did that

I made you whole, then wore you flat

My need became a quiet cell

Where I confused my love with hell

I loved a lie, and named it fate

Fed it sorrow, dressed it late

I begged for warmth from walls I built

Then bled for ghosts and called it guilt

I kissed the wind, I held the shade

Believed in things I never made

Now silence answers when I cry

It tells the truth

I loved a lie

There never was a"you and me"

Just what I hoped the world could be

And in that hope, I lost the thread

Of who I was before I bled

I loved a lie, it loved me back

In every crack, in every lack

Now all I have is what I see

The void where you should've loved me

No final words, no sweet goodbye

Just breathless truth beneath the sky

I let you go, and found I died

Not in your arms

But in the lie