Why Do I Bother

[Intro] [Verse 1] I paint these words in fading light, A silent scream, a losing f***t. You turn away, the air grows thin, A hollow echo from within. [Chorus] Why do I bother, why do I try? When every whisper just slips by. You build a wall I can’t climb through, A ghost of love I never knew. [Verse 2] I trace the cracks in all we’ve said, A mosaic of the unsaid. Your shadow dances, cold and bare, A script you wrote without me there. [Chorus] Why do I bother, why do I stay? A flicker drowned in your gray. The stars we named now barely glow, A truth I’ve learned but hate to show. [Bridge] Do you hear the silence grow? A storm where no one knows. I’ll fold my heart, let seasons change, And walk the path where we’re estranged. [Chorus] Why do I bother, why does it ache? A flame you left in your wake. The curtain falls, the stage is bare, Why do I care when you don’t care? [Outro]