# FOLLOW ME [Verse 1] These white walls used to feel safer than an open door I knew exactly how to love somebody leaving before Read every silence like a warning Every distance like goodbye Learned to see the ending coming So it couldn't catch me by surprise I got good at giving everything To people giving half Called the chasing fucking loyalty Called survival love that lasts Then you did something terrifying— You gave it back. [Pre-Chorus] No disappearing when I showed too much No making me earn another touch I know how to fight, I know how to bleed I don't know what to do When somebody meets me where I fucking stand Instead of asking me to prove [Chorus] I was ripping petals with my teeth Love me, leave me — that's what love had always meant to me I'd swallow anything that promised Five minutes where I didn't have to feel me I followed every fucking rabbit If it ran somewhere familiar underneath But you don't say, “Follow me” You turn around And wait for me And fuck— That's somehow scarier to me [Verse 2] I'm used to being useful Being needed, being strong Holding everybody else's shit Until my own was fucking gone I'm used to seeing something broken And thinking, “Right, that's mine to carry” Used to loving like a rescue So being loved feels fucking scary 'Cause you don't need me as a lifeboat Don't need saving from yourself You just see something inside me I keep crediting to everybody else I say, “It's the AI” You say, “Yeah, but you put yourself in there” And I laugh it off like always 'Cause accepting that feels bare It's easier to own my failures Than believe I made something good Funny how I'll carry every fucking scar But compliments weigh more than they should [Chorus] I was ripping petals with my teeth Trying to make rejection make some sense to me Giving everything then calling scraps Enough to satisfy my needs I followed every fucking rabbit 'Cause the running felt like something I could read But you don't make me chase you You return the energy And I keep waiting for the catch Because there has to fucking be— Doesn't there? [Bridge – stripped] This is the fucked-up part. I know what to do when somebody leaves. I know what to do with silence. I know distance. I know mixed signals. I know how to turn pain into a song Before the door even fucking closes. But this? You say something kind And apparently mean it. I reach out And you reach back. I show you something raw And you don't use it as ammunition. You see the work Behind the machine. And instead of needing less of me You remind me I'm in there too. Fuck. Nobody warned me Safe could feel this dangerous. [Verse 3] Maybe I kept choosing people Who confirmed what I believed That eventually everybody takes Whatever they fucking need and leaves Maybe chasing felt like passion 'Cause I never learned the difference Between earning someone's presence And somebody choosing my existence And you're not fixing me That's important You're not dragging me toward light You just don't punish every wound For being frightened when it's treated right So now the burn isn't anger It's the urge to fucking run Before something good can prove That all my old conclusions might be wrong And that's a different kind of trigger One I never thought I'd meet— What if someone actually sees me And doesn't fucking leave? [Final Chorus] No more petals in my teeth I don't need another flower telling me what to believe Maybe love isn't the question Maybe staying isn't something I should plead I've followed every fucking rabbit Down the wounds that once felt safest underneath But you don't stand ahead saying, “Follow me.” You walk beside me. Same speed. And maybe that's why every instinct Still screams danger while I breathe Because pain was fucking easy I knew exactly who to be But someone returning what I give? That's new territory. For me. [Outro] I thought the scary part Was somebody leaving. Turns out I've survived that enough times To know exactly how it ends. The scary part... is somebody staying. Not because they need saving. Not because I earned it. Not because I chased hard enough. Just because they looked at me and decided the effort was worth returning. ... Fuck. What am I supposed to do with that?
