[Verse 1]
Your name on the mailbox
Her dress in the hall
Sunday smiles at dinner
Family photos on the wall
She pours you your coffee
Knows just how you take it
Everyone thinks it’s perfect
Only she knows she fakes it
[Chorus]
Paper rings
Golden cage
You’re the script
He’s the unwritten page
You hold her hand
She holds her breath
Kissing you slow while she’s loving him to death
You call it home
She calls it fate
Sharing your bed with a heart that never stayed
Paper rings
Golden cage
One true love locked away
[Verse 2]
Your best friend’s at the table
Laughing like he does
Her eyes drop to her napkin
Like she forgot what this was
Your mother talks of grandkids
Your father counts his shares
She studies every silence
Hears her own life disappear
[Chorus]
Paper rings
Golden cage
You’re the script
He’s the unwritten page
You hold her hand
She holds her breath
Kissing you slow while she’s loving him to death
You call it home
She calls it fate
Sharing your bed with a heart that never stayed
Paper rings
Golden cage
One true love locked away
[Bridge]
She tried to choose you
Chose the house
Chose the name
But a mansion feels so empty
When your heart never came
If you listen past the hallway
Through the doors that never creak
You would hear her say his name
In the spaces she can’t speak
[Chorus]
Paper rings
Golden cage
You’re the script
He’s the unwritten page
You hold her hand
She holds her breath
Kissing you slow while she’s loving him to death
You call it home
She calls it fate
Sharing your bed with a heart that never stayed
Paper rings
Golden cage
One true love locked away
Copyright February 4, 2026, by Stephen Craig Whitley – All Rights Reserved
