[Verse 1] I kept a second language Made of half-truths and closed doors Learned to answer every question Without saying what it was for I called the distance safety I called the silence being strong Till I couldn’t tell the difference Between hiding and being gone [Pre-Chorus] You were reaching through the static I was turning down the sound Every secret built another wall Then I blamed the walls around [Chorus] There was a stranger in my name Living the life I couldn’t face She wore my skin, she fed the flame But I was there in every choice she made I can’t call damage innocence I can’t make loneliness defence If I want out of what I became I have to answer for the stranger in my name [Verse 2] I found reasons in the wreckage I found wounds from years before Every one of them was honest None explained what I did it for You were changing in the daylight I was fading out of view We sat like strangers at the table Calling history the truth [Pre-Chorus] I won’t lay my choices at the feet Of every time I felt unseen Pain can tell me how I got here It can’t wash my hands clean [Chorus] There was a stranger in my name Living the life I couldn’t face She wore my skin, she fed the flame But I was there in every choice she made I can’t call damage innocence I can’t make loneliness defence If I want out of what I became I have to answer for the stranger in my name [Bridge] If I tear the mirrors from the walls She’s still standing underneath No confession resurrects trust No apology makes it clean But I can stop protecting The version built to survive I can mourn the one I damaged Without abandoning my life [Breakdown] Say my name Make me answer No more shadows No more alibis Say my name Make me answer I was lost But I was never blind [Final Chorus] I was the stranger in my name Living the life I couldn’t face I wore the skin, I fed the flame I was there in every choice I made I won’t call damage innocence I won’t make loneliness defence If I want back the self I betrayed I have to face the woman I became [Outro] I say my name without disguise And this time I don’t look away
