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Gaslight & Glitter

Valentina · Howling Moon Music

Album: Red Lipstick & Busted Knuckles · Track 13
Southern Rock / Country Rock
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The Story Behind This Song

Modern culture calls it "boundaries." But when they only go one way and they don't bring healing — those aren't boundaries. That's control. That's manipulation. Follow my rules or else. How is that good therapy advice?

This song is for everyone who got gaslit by someone hiding behind self-help language. The ones who got cut off by people quoting TikTok therapists while doing the exact thing they accuse you of. Boundaries wrapped in glitter are still cages.

I wrote this because I watched people weaponize therapy words to justify cruelty. "I'm setting a boundary" became code for "I'm punishing you and you're not allowed to question it." That's not healing. That's gaslighting with a prettier vocabulary.

Lyrics

Don't call it boundaries
When you really mean
Silence
Control
Gave me rules
Called them boundaries
Then ghosted me like that makes you evolved
I don't run from hard convos
You suck at conflict call it resolved
Said not responsible for my emotional landscape
Then told me call a therapist for the pain you caused
Namaste my fuckin ass
Scrubbed your floors you kicked my ass
You call it calm I call it fake
Cancel people when truth's at stake
I won't vanish
I won't shrink

Told me my tone's too loud for your healing
While you ghosted calls ignored real feelings
Built a life left me out
Like I'm toxic for crying crazy for truth
I'd die for you still would that's the proof

Labeled me unsafe
I needed a hug
Called me dramatic while sweeping the rug
Painted me broken made me the beast
While you played butcher at that family feast
Said not healthy vanished mid-feud
Called my pain aggressive ghosting mood
Needed space flipped the script
Now peacekeeper with a guilt trip
Claimed you're calm while twisting truth
Ghosted me mid-sentence mid-life mid-cry
Said call your therapist waved goodbye
You call that growth I call it spin
Lit the match
Blamed the wind

Gaslight and glitter namaste lies
Truth in my chest where it lived too long
Label me too much I won't shrink
Healing without honesty that's abuse
Gen X raised on grit
We don't block we clear the air like friends

Cleaned your floors you kicked me out
Called my grief a trigger my pain too loud
Said that's your emotion not my job
Then cried to your therapist about my sobs
Weaponized silence mastered the fade
Blamed it on peace just a charade
Talked healing made it one-sided
I carried this love bruised uninvited

Called it boundaries I call it a moat
Built from excuses straight self-help quotes
Gave me exile I gave you life
Gave me shame I gave you the earth
Blocked unfriended staged your script
Played therapist with a trauma grip
Called my grief a personality flaw
Said I was triggered watched me fall
Twisted my pain into a power trip
Fake refrain on your filtered lips
Hid behind vibes called it mature
We resolve shit not ignore
I was taught to face it fix it speak
You do no contact

Gaslight and glitter therapy tone
Healing without truth just a game
Write your narrative paint me wild
I've been the villain the orphaned child
I rise in fire

You don't get to hurt me
Then call me bitter for bleeding

Namaste my fuckin ass
Won't beg love or relive our past
Block me mock me rewrite our tale
I'm the damn oak tree in your holy fairytale
No apologies for fire in my voice
You made a choice
Call it growth but you ran
I'm still here like I always am

Rage you buried love you'll never know
Call it healing I call it show
Namaste my fuckin ass

Gaslight and glitter truth and flame
No more shrinking no more spin
Done playing small so you can win
Cancel me I light the match
Speak my truth never look back
Called it chaos I called it soul
You called me crazy I called me whole
Gaslight and glitter curtains drawn
I'm not the one who played the pawn
I've got receipts I've got rage
Years of grief and a goddamn stage
Said I was broken said I'm too loud
I say I'm free fierce and proud

Glitter in my war paint
You can't delete truth
You can't cancel blood
You can't mute history
I was there
I am still here
And I brought glitter to the battlefield
Namaste
My fuckin ass

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