Tell Me

Verse 1

Another headline written in your ink

You rewrite the truth before I can even think

I am just a shadow on your painted stage

A convenient villain on a dog-eared page

You twist the timeline till the edges blur

Making sure they pity who you say you were

Chorus

Tell me how you're the victim this time

Tell me how my grief became your crime

You ask your questions to the room aloud

As you cry for mercy to a bleeding crowd

You wash your hands in water that you stained

And count the ways that only you were pained

Verse 2

It is a heavy habit, this ghost you wear

Dragging your casualties into the open air

They offer comfort for the wars you made

While I am buried in the plot you laid

An endless cycle of your self-defense

At everyone's expense

Chorus

Tell me how you're the victim this time

Tell me how my grief became your crime

You ask your questions to the room aloud

As you cry for mercy to a bleeding crowd

You wash your hands in water that you stained

And count the ways that only you were pained

Bridge

You wear your guilt like a martyr's crown

Burning every bridge just to watch it drown

But you're the one who needs the rescue boat

From the very letters that your own hand wrote

How many names do you have to erase

To look at your reflection in the glass and save face?

Chorus

Tell me how you're the victim this time

Tell me how my tragedy became your line

The question hangs and the echoes ring

As you pluck the feathers from a broken wing

You wash your hands in water that you stained

And count the ways that only you were pained

Outro

Always you...

The star of the tragedy.

The casualty of your own cruelty.

Just tell me how...

Tell me how.