Bad Boy

**Bad Boy Lullaby**

 

 

(Soft keys, warped guitar, trap hi-hats under a distant siren)

 

 

Hook / Chorus (sung, melodic):

 

I was a bad boy, midnight on my chest,

 

played the part, smiled, but you knew I was a mess.

 

You held the pieces when I only caused the noise,

 

now you’re singing soft to the bad boy — lullaby for broken toys.

 

I’m still the echo in your hall, still the shadow on your wall,

 

bad boy with a heart that never learned to call.

 

 

Verse 1 (half-sung, half-rap):

 

I drove fast lanes with your name on the dash,

 

smoke on my breath, memories in the ash.

 

Leather jacket, empty nights, neon bleeding through my past,

 

you patched me up with quiet hands, but patchwork never lasts.

 

I learned to hide in flash, let the world think I was bold,

 

counted every scar as proof, every story that I told.

 

But when the lights went down, and the crowd slipped away,

 

your silence said my truth — I was fragile in the gray.

 

 

Pre-Chorus (melodic):

 

Baby, I apologize to every midnight I wasted,

 

to every promise I erased or tasted.

 

I’m trying to change the script, flip the page,

 

but the ink’s still wet from the way we rage.

 

 

Hook / Chorus (sung, layered):

 

I was a bad boy, midnight on my chest,

 

played the part, smiled, but you knew I was a mess.

 

You held the pieces when I only caused the noise,

 

now you’re singing soft to the bad boy — lullaby for broken toys.

 

I’m still the echo in your hall, still the shadow on your wall,

 

bad boy with a heart that never learned to call.

 

 

Verse 2 (rap, rapid internal rhymes):

 

Champagne nights, cheap fights, I wrote love in cigarette lines,

 

traded warmth for the thrill, walked danger like it was mine.

 

You saw the kid beneath the chrome, the weight behind the grin,

 

picked the glass from my hand and put the puzzle back within.

 

I pushed and pulled like a tide that never learned to stay,

 

kept running from the sun, hid my dawn in yesterday.

 

If I could press rewind, I’d teach my heartbeat how to stay,

 

but I only learned to love the moon and scare the day away.

 

 

Bridge (sung softly, atmospheric):

 

Can I be forgiven if I’m trying to be more?

 

Can I stop the running, close these empty doors?

 

You sang me lullabies while my demons tore the floor,

 

I’m a bad boy learning how to beg and not to war.

 

 

Breakdown (spoken, echo):

 

They called me trouble, I made that name my crown,

 

never thought a crown could feel like letting someone down.

 

You held me when my edges were all sharp and damn near gone,

 

now I hum your name like a chorus in the dawn.

 

 

Hook / Chorus (final, fuller, emotional):

 

I was a bad boy, midnight on my chest,

 

played the part, smiled, but you knew I was a mess.

 

You held the pieces when I only caused the noise,

 

now you’re singing soft to the bad boy — lullaby for broken toys.

 

I’m still the echo in your hall, still the shadow on your wall,

 

bad boy with a heart that finally learns to call.

 

 

Outro (whispered, fading):

 

Sleep now, sleep — the streets can keep their noise,

 

I’ll keep the quiet that you taught me, your soft and honest voice.

 

Bad boy learning, slow and steady, to be something more than noise.