I Gave You My Voice | The Little Mermaid Dark Song

🌙 ONCE UPON A NIGHTMARE — I Gave You My Voice She dreamed of the world above, saved the prince she loved, and traded away her voice for the chance to stand beside him. But the real curse was not silence — it was believing she had to become less herself to be worthy of love. Inspired by the recognisable Little Mermaid story people carry in their heads, this dark song turns the familiar bargain into a nightmare about identity, longing and the price of shrinking yourself for someone who cannot truly see you. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6MzUS... Lyrics: Once upon a nightmare... I see your world above me, and I want more. I watch your lanterns burning through the black-blue tide, silver on the water, a kingdom in the sky. I keep your broken treasures where the green light sleeps, little human secrets washed down to the deep. Then the storm starts laughing, and your ship comes apart. I pull you from the darkness with both hands and all my heart. You wake to the sunrise... not to me. And still I can't stop dreaming what your world could make of me. So I swim where the bargain waits, where the old song coils below. She says, “Love is not impossible... you just have to let something go.” I gave you my voice, I gave you the sea, I gave away the truest thing that ever lived in me. Now I walk in your world like a beautiful mistake. I gave you my voice... how much more should I break? If love needs silence, if love needs pain, if love needs me half-gone just to say your name— I gave you my voice, but you still don't see me. She pours me into moonlight, she tears me into feet. Every step is fire, every smile has teeth. But when you hold my hand, when you pull me through the dance, for one dangerous second I mistake it for a chance. You call me your wonder, you keep me by your side. I laugh without a sound now, I drown with both eyes dry. And all the words inside me beat against my ribs— every truth I should have told you with the mouth she would not give. Then a girl with my stolen music comes shining through your door. And I learn a voice can haunt you even after it isn't yours. I gave you my voice, I gave you the sea, I gave away the truest thing that ever lived in me. Now I walk in your world like a beautiful mistake. I gave you my voice... how much more should I break? If love needs silence, if love needs pain, if love needs me half-gone just to say your name— I gave you my voice, but you still don't see me. The witch wears my singing like a crown made out of theft. You hear the sound and follow it... and choose the lie that's left. That's when the nightmare opens. That's when I understand: you cannot build forever with your heart inside someone else's hand. I did not lose you when you reached for her. I lost myself the moment I agreed that love would work better if I disappeared first. No more. I gave you my voice— now I take back me! Take back the ocean, take back the dream, take back the girl who thought pain made love complete. You can keep your palace. You can keep your shore. I will not stay unfinished just to beg for more. If love wants silence, let it die unheard. If love can't hold me singing, it never deserved my words. I gave you my voice— never again. I gave you my voice... now I rise with it. The waves know my name. The dark still sings it. The world I wanted glitters... but I do not need it. I thought I had to change to become somebody worth choosing. The moral of this nightmare is... the love that asks for your voice is already teaching you to live as a ghost. This dark fairytale pop-folk song reimagines The Little Mermaid as a nightmare of sacrifice, voice and identity. #OnceUponANightmare #TheLittleMermaid #DarkSong #DarkFairytale #DarkPopFolk #MermaidSong