if I'm the villain what does that make you?

Leave me with your lies
kiss the air with your one-sided stories
I won't unlove you though I wish I could

Close your eyes on this chapter
and pretend I never existed
until you need an easy villain
and you always need an easy villain

I don't know how
I've made it this far
thinking there was a shred
of good left in your bones

There's no bonds left
to hold onto

There's just you and me
and a space between

I hope you're happy
in that righteous place
I hope the dotted line
keeps you warm at night

I hope you never know
how much it hurts to love you
when I'm just a caricature of myself
in your head

Real life isn't a story
with a redemption arc
for those who don't need
to be redeemed

I don't need to be redeemed
so fuck your backstabbing hands
love doesn't mean I owe you anything

Leave me with your lies
kiss the air with your one-sided stories
I won't unlove you though I wish I could