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“I told you once… I told you twice…”

nice guys never survive…

Your silence paints my name in ash

and I’m still bleeding from the aftermath

(yeah… from the aftermath…)

I told you once, I told you twice

Nice guys always finish last

(oh don’t you remember?)

You’re the one who drove the final nail

straight through the casket

of what was my heart.

It’s good that I’m far away,

what would it change anyway?

I know things would always stay the same

me at the end of a losing exchange

you chasing highs in another parade

(“yeah… another parade…”)

And you never even whispered love

never even tried to fake the words

I’m glad you don’t say my name anymore

it’s just dust now

just dust now…

The only thing breaking was me

while all the attention stayed on you

Tell me, does the mirror ever cry

when it stares right back at truth?

You love the glow, but not the flame,

you love the chase, not the name

I guess loving the nice guy’s boring

(yeah, I guess it’s boring…)

You only saw me through your reflection

a stand-in for your next affection

Every kiss. another theft in disguise

every touch, just a test I never passed.

I kept thinking pain was proof

that giving more could make me enough

But every promise bent and broke

and you never looked up once

And I keep replaying your ghost in my head

but even echoes get tired of the sound

You wanted love without the weight

but I was built for something profound

The only thing breaking was me

you wore indifference like perfume

I tore my lungs just to breathe

in the hope you’d bloom

But all you wanted was to feel adored

not to love, not to stay, not to be restored

(oh, not to be restored…)

Now I see

you never wanted the heart, just the chase

never wanted the truth, just the taste

Your words, like glass, cut on the way in

and I swallowed them whole to feel something

I was the quiet storm behind your smile

the warmth you used and left to die

You called it love, I called it faith

but it was mercy bleeding out in disguise

I told you once… I told you twice…

Love’s not a stage for sacrifice!

My veins remember every lie

and still, I breathe your name tonight

( “still breathe your name tonight…”)

The only thing breaking was me

but I’ve learned that silence can scream

You can keep your fleeting dreams

I’ll build something real from what you left in me

(yeah, I’m still bleeding

but at least it’s mine to bleed…)

You loved being wanted,

but never learned how to love

And I was the fool

who thought I could be enough

But the truth is

nice guys don’t finish last…

they just end things right