Love can leave devastating emotional scars that feel impossible to heal from. In this powerful rock ballad, the narrator uses the metaphor of a chalk outline - like those drawn around murder victims - to describe how a toxic relationship left them feeling dead inside. The lyrics paint a vivid picture of someone who has been repeatedly hurt, betrayed, and emotionally destroyed by a partner they trusted. The imagery suggests they were left as just an empty shell of their former self, waiting to be washed away like chalk in the rain. Despite the damage done, their ex keeps "returning to the scene of the crime," perhaps out of guilt or habit, but it's too late - the emotional death has already occurred and there's nothing left to salvage. #ToxicLove #EmotionalTrauma
Chalk Outline
Lyrics
I've been cursed, I've been crossed
I've been beaten by the ones that get me off
I've been cut, I've been opened up
I've been shattered by the ones I thought I loved
You left me here like a chalk outline
On the sidewalk waiting for the rain to wash away, wash away
You keep coming back to the scene of the crime
But the dead can't speak and there's nothing left to say anyway
All you left behind is a chalk outline
I've been cold in the crypt
But not as the cold as the words across your lips
You'll be sorry baby some day
When you reach across the bed where my body used to lay
You left me here like a chalk outline
On the sidewalk waiting for the rain to wash away, wash away
You keep coming back to the scene of the crime
But the dead can't speak and there's nothing left to say anyway
All you left behind is a chalk outline
All you left behind is a chalk outline (All you left behind)
You left me here like a chalk outline
On the sidewalk waiting for the rain to wash away, wash away
You keep coming back to the scene of the crime
But the dead can't speak and there's nothing left to say anyway
All you left behind is a chalk outline
Writer(s): ADAM GONTIER, BARRY STOCK, BRAD WALST, CRAIG WISEMAN, NEIL SANDERSON
Copyright(s): Lyrics © Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), HYVETOWN MUSIC INC, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, O/B/O DistroKid
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