Bulletproof Heartstrings

**Bulletproof Heartstrings**

 

 

(Verse 1)

 

Night falls, phone glows, I’m counting broken stars,

 

Your name a cigarette, I keep it in my scars.

 

Cold sheets, colder thoughts, replaying every scar,

 

I swear I’m doin' fine until I hear that far-off car.

 

You move like a rumor, soft and hard at once,

 

Got me borderline sinner, borderline dunce.

 

I mix your laughter with the sound of sirens, babe,

 

Tightrope on the rooftop, every step is grave.

 

 

(Pre-Chorus)

 

I baptize my pain in melodies and pills,

 

But none of them can fix the space your absence fills.

 

You haunt me gentle, like a chorus on repeat,

 

Love’s a loaded needle and you’re the drip I need.

 

 

(Chorus)

 

I’m addicted to your echo, to the trace of your name,

 

Pull the trigger on my doubt but the shot don’t change.

 

Bulletproof heartstrings, but they snap in the rain,

 

You shoot me with your silence and I beg for the pain.

 

Yeah, I keep rewinding — I can’t quit the frame,

 

Love’s a reckless season and I’m staying in the flame.

 

 

(Verse 2)

 

Blue lights in the mirror, memories on speed,

 

Your lipstick on a promise like a prophecy I read.

 

We danced in contradictions, under neon-sin,

 

You stole my cigarettes and all the places I’d been.

 

My therapist is Spotify, she hears me in the night,

 

I tell her all my secrets and the way I lose the fight.

 

You were a weather warning, I was the hurricane,

 

I came back for more damage like it’s something to regain.

 

 

(Pre-Chorus)

 

I baptize my pain in melodies and pills,

 

But none of them can fix the space your absence fills.

 

You haunt me gentle, like a chorus on repeat,

 

Love’s a loaded needle and you’re the drip I need.

 

 

(Chorus)

 

I’m addicted to your echo, to the trace of your name,

 

Pull the trigger on my doubt but the shot don’t change.

 

Bulletproof heartstrings, but they snap in the rain,

 

You shoot me with your silence and I beg for the pain.

 

Yeah, I keep rewinding — I can’t quit the frame,

 

Love’s a reckless season and I’m staying in the flame.

 

 

(Bridge — half-sung, half-rapped)

 

Tell me, is forgiveness a currency or a crime?

 

I’m paying rent with memories and late-night wasted time.

 

You said forever like a promise, now it’s chalk on the ground,

 

But I trace those letters nightly, hoping they come back around.

 

I wear your ghost like armor, it keeps me numb and thin,

 

But every breath you borrow feels like where I begin.

 

If loving you’s a battle, I’ll be the one who stays,

 

Gunmetal roses blooming in a field of ash and praise.

 

 

(Verse 3 — softer)

 

Morning comes, I’m lighter, but your shadow stays,

 

Coffee cups and closet dust, the quiet’s razor blades.

 

I write our conversations on the wall behind my eyes,

 

A mural of the almosts where the stubborn feeling lies.

 

I don’t want to fix you, don’t want you fixed on me,

 

Just want the version that believed we could be free.

 

So I put the needle down, but keep the ache alive,

 

‘Cause every time I’m breathing, I’m surviving you by five.

 

 

(Chorus — layered, more melodic)

 

I’m addicted to your echo, to the trace of your name,

 

Pull the trigger on my doubt but the shot don’t change.

 

Bulletproof heartstrings, but they snap in the rain,

 

You shoot me with your silence and I beg for the pain.

 

I keep rewinding — I can’t quit the frame,

 

Love’s a reckless season and I’m staying in the flame.

 

 

(Outro — whisper, fading)

 

If love is war, then call me the frontline,

 

If love is poison, I still drink your wine.

 

Your echo’s in my chest like a song I can’t unlearn,

 

Bulletproof or not, for you my heart will burn.