[Verse 1]

You took my breath like collateral, locked it away

Said love was a favor I had to repay

Every smile came with fine-print pain

Every promise stamped with my name

You spoke in codes, you spoke in debts

Kept score of things I don’t regret

I tried to leave, you’d change the plan

Hands up, heart tied with a rubber band

[Pre-Chorus]

You said, “stay, or lose it all tonight”

Like my freedom had a price tag tied

[Chorus]

You held me hostage in your hands

Love turned into a ransom demand

Pay in silence, bleed in trust

Call it fate, but it’s never just

You said, “if you want me, prove who I am”

Yeah, you held my heart for a ransom demand

[Verse 2]

Every goodbye felt conditional

Like escape was always fictional

I learned your tells, your loaded lines

How you’d weaponize your “fine”

I shrank myself to fit your terms

Signed my name where it still burns

I was breathing, but barely alive

Counting the cost just to survive

[Pre-Chorus]

You said “this is what love requires”

While you struck the match, fed the fire

[Chorus]

You held me hostage in your hands

Love turned into a ransom demand

Pay in silence, bleed in trust

Call it fate, but it’s never just

You said, “If you want me, prove who I am”

Yeah, you held my heart for a ransom demand

[Bridge]

No alarms, no getaway car

Just a lock you left ajar

I didn’t owe you my pain

Didn’t owe you my name

I walked out lighter than before

Left the fear on your cold floor

Kept my pulse, kept my spine

You can keep what was never mine

[Chorus]

You held me hostage in your hands

Love turned into a ransom demand

But I cut the wire, broke the stand

Took my life back, unplanned

You said, “without me, you won’t stand”

Now I’m free from your ransom demand

[Outro]

No more numbers on my skin

No more bargains to stay in

You can keep your broken plan

I don’t answer ransom demands