Because You "Kept Me Alive"?

You think my truths should be your lies

That you should live while I die

Rip the blood straight from my veins

But you're irritated by my pain. 

Just breathing ain't living

What's stolen was not given 

My feelings are invalid

You took custody of my talent

If I make it

"We've made it"

My success I'll build 

While you take it

I'm just an empty deposit for your financial nourishment.

The only thing you kept living was my resentment

Of you and your mistakes

The ones you'd leave us to live with 

For your bullshit I'm in no mood

But you always covered it with, "She just got an attitude"

Here you come with the excuses

Never short of attacking my character

Like you carry the switch

To turn everyone around you into a battered bitch.

Pray to your fictitious gods 

But I remember when you never used to pray this hard

Getting scared?

Scared to be alone, yet you've already collected my bones.

Strong love

Now gone

Feel how it feels to stand on your own

Comforted by your lies

Blanketed by your ties to play victim

Strong holds we've had enough

Look at you now

You're not so tough

I've washed my hands

And called your bluff

Without you I can make it

Smiles - I no longer have to fake it

I've been so scared to feel happy

But now I think I can take it

When that current comes in 

I'm going out with the tide 

Because you "kept me alive"?

No, I did that

You were just down for the ride.