Hoaxed Heart

**HOAXED HEART**

 

 

(whisper)

 

you said forever like it was nothing —

 

like breath in winter, like a promise broken soft.

 

 

(verse 1)

 

cold lights, phone glowing, your name a bruise,

 

I keep replaying why I ever chose to lose.

 

you move like midnight, velvet and a lie,

 

smile sharp enough to cut the sky.

 

paper crowns and cigarette scars,

 

we counted constellations in cheap bars.

 

you wore my trust like a borrowed coat,

 

left me standing in the rain, throat closed.

 

 

(pre-chorus)

 

I screamed your silence, swallowed my sound,

 

watching you float while I drown.

 

 

(chorus)

 

hoaxed heart, beating like a warning,

 

shattered glass in the shape of morning.

 

you played the sun, then hid the art —

 

left me with a hoaxed heart.

 

hoaxed heart, echo in my chest,

 

tell me how to learn to rest.

 

 

(verse 2)

 

photographs burn slow, edges curl,

 

your laugh a record in a room gone cold.

 

I carved our names into the fogged window,

 

your shadow answered back with low.

 

you were a player, tongue silver, palms clean,

 

sold me the moon, kept the scene.

 

I traced the cracks where truth fell through,

 

counted the lies like I counted you.

 

 

(pre-chorus)

 

mirror on the ceiling, nothing left to hide,

 

I wear the cracks like a lullaby.

 

 

(chorus)

 

hoaxed heart, beating like a warning,

 

shattered glass in the shape of morning.

 

you played the sun, then hid the art —

 

left me with a hoaxed heart.

 

hoaxed heart, echo in my chest,

 

tell me how to learn to rest.

 

 

(bridge — quiet, building)

 

hands tremble, I want to forgive,

 

but forgiveness tastes like giving up the only thing I lived.

 

I pull the thread, unravel the night,

 

watch the illusions fall to light.

 

 

(break — half-whisper, half-scream)

 

you were thunder, I was the shore —

 

every wave pulled me closer, left me wanting more.

 

now I sit with the silence you taught,

 

count the lessons that your leaving brought.

 

 

(final chorus — layered, distant)

 

hoaxed heart, bleeding like a warning,

 

I gather pieces for a different morning.

 

you played the sun, but I learned the dark —

 

I breathe again from this hoaxed heart.

 

hoaxed heart, quiet in my chest,

 

one day I’ll teach myself to rest.

 

 

(outro — fade)

 

your name is a ghost I let go of slow,

 

I tuck the echoes where the wildflowers grow.