I found the tape, still in the drawer
The one from the night before
Your voice clear, mine shaking
We didn’t know what was waiting
The time stamp doesn’t lie
But they never looked twice
They saw what they wanted to see
And buried the rest with me
They said, “You must’ve done it”
Didn’t even hear me runnin’
From the truth they chose to twist
Now I don’t even exist
There’s evidence in every breath
In every call, in what I said
But no one played the reel to the end
Just clipped the truth and called it dead
You could’ve saved me, cleared my name
But all your silence sounds the same
I’m drowning in what they never meant
And no one looked at the evidence
Fingerprints on a heart I broke
But not on the weapon they wrote
Still they drew the chalk around me
While the real killer’s still free
My phone’s full of proof I begged
But you deleted all your texts
Guess it’s easier to erase
Than admit what really took place
They called it closure
But they closed the wrong case over
And over again, the cycle spins
No way out — no way back in
There’s evidence in every breath
In every call, in what I said
But no one played the reel to the end
Just clipped the truth and called it dead
You could’ve saved me, cleared my name
But all your silence sounds the same
I’m drowning in what they never meant
And no one looked at the evidence
Play it back. Slow it down.
I wasn’t there when it all went down.
But the tape’s gone. The files corrupted.
The truth was there — they just didn’t want it.
There’s evidence in every word
But no one listens till it hurts
And by the time they see the light
I’m already buried by the night
You could’ve saved me, cleared my name
But justice never came
Now I fade without defense
Buried under the evidence