About this song
Trapped in a perfect world built by Jace Beleren, Liliana Vess finds herself in a prison without death. Confronted by a flawless copy of herself, she reclaims her scars and her power, one resurrected rat at a time.
Lyrics
[Verse 1] Days of fruit and nothing dead for miles, not a beetle, not a bone, not a fly. There's a mouse that won't lie down however hard I stare, and your big stone Gideon just watching me try. You locked your ex inside a pretty dungeon, Beleren, that's a dragon's kind of move. And the girl you built with your face and your stubborn chin keeps coming down to ask me what is true. [Pre-Chorus] Your perfect copy wants to take my pain away. Sweetie, no. My pain is mine. [Chorus] My mistakes are mine to fix, every scar and every grave. You don't get to build a better me and call it being saved. I'm two hundred years of wrong turns, Jace, and I'm keeping every one. My mistakes are mine to fix, and I'm not done. [Verse 2] The kid slipped me a chicken. I hate that I like that kid. It had one wing, and it got up and ran. Then every rat that ever died in that dungeon came pouring out of Gideon's mouth on my command. Your copy glowed at them. I walked right through the glow. I put my hands around a throat that looked like mine. And when she stood back up, she smiled because I told her to, and we came up your tower, sweetie, right on time. [Pre-Chorus] Your perfect copy wanted to take my pain away. Sweetie, no. My pain is mine. [Chorus] My mistakes are mine to fix, every scar and every grave. You don't get to build a better me and call it being saved. I'm two hundred years of wrong turns, Jace, and I'm keeping every one. My mistakes are mine to fix, and I'm not done. [Bridge] You went through my head like a thief with a lamp, found my brother coughing, found Gideon again, put your failures in my heart and a knot behind my eyes, and I still came close enough to say it. I'm sorry, Jace. Rest unburdened. [Verse 3] You asked me once if I'd be sad when you were gone. I said something cruel. I always did. Now I'm kneeling in the ruins of your perfect world, and it's so much more than sad. It's so much more. Your spark came up out of you, burning blue, and I screamed at it, Beleren, what did you do? Then I tore my dress up off the ice, and me and your gorgon carried you home through the ring. [Chorus] My mistakes are mine to fix, every scar and every grave. You were the one I couldn't fix, so I carried you away. I'm two hundred years of wrong turns, Jace, and I'm keeping every one. My mistakes are mine to fix, and I'm not done. [Outro] Rest unburdened. I'm not done.
