You shine like gold in a world that’s cracked,

But I see through your light, I can’t go back.

You said we’d heal down by the waves,

But all I found were empty graves.

You wore that smile like it meant something,

But it was hollow like the songs you sing.

Your beach house dreams, your plastic scene,

Left me drowning in what might’ve been.

The salt air stings but I still breathe,

As if your ghost would let me leave.

You said I’d find myself out there,

But I lost more than I could ever repair.

You said the sun would cleanse it all,

But it just exposed how far I’d fall.

Another drink, another lie,

Another perfect alibi.

Your paradise was paper-thin,

And I was never meant to fit in.

You wanted someone to save,

But I was never that brave.

You dragged me down your perfect shore,

But I don’t feel that way anymore.

You dressed up scars with summer skin,

But I saw through the light within.

You can keep your Malibu —

I’m done trying to belong to you.

I gave you truth, you gave me games,

I called it love, you called it fame.

The water shimmered like it cared,

But all it did was leave me bare.

The waves don’t wash the pain away,

They just teach you how to stay.

You told me real was too intense,

So I became your past-tense.

Your friends with eyes like vacant suns,

They never knew what we’d become.

You smiled for cameras, not for me —

But I still bled so quietly.

You said the beach could make me new,

But I came undone because of you.

Don’t tell me it was beautiful

When all I felt was pitiful.

I held your hand, you let me drown,

And now there’s no way back to solid ground.

You wanted someone soft and blind,

But I’ve got rage you’ll never find.

You made me choose the waves or pain,

So I walked out into the rain.

You wanted someone to save,

But I was never that brave.

You dragged me down your perfect shore,

But I don’t feel that way anymore.

You dressed up scars with summer skin,

But I saw through the light within.

You can keep your Malibu —

I’m done trying to belong to you.

I’ll leave the coast and take my scars,

I’ll find my peace beneath the stars.

I don’t need sand to feel the truth —

I just need to forget you.