Verse 1 You only knew the woman that survived it Never asked what it took to become her You saw me standing, so you thought I couldn’t fall Saw me giving, so you kept taking it all I made excuses for the ones who did me wrong Covered their names while they were tearing me down I was the shoulder when everybody needed one But when mine got heavy, where the hell was someone? I loved people past the point they deserved it Gave pieces of myself and never thought twice Some of y’all knew my heart was genuine And still found a way to treat it like it had no price PRE-CHORUS And that’s the part you don’t know… That’s the woman you never took time to see You knew what I could do for you But never cared enough to know what you were doing to me CHORUS This is my brutal honesty You didn’t just hurt me, you changed me You broke pieces nobody else could see While I kept smiling like I was supposed to be You took my loyalty and called it weakness Took my forgiveness and called it freedom You thought my heart would always understand But even a strong woman needs somebody to hold her hand This is my brutal honesty I’m not angry that you couldn’t love me right I’m hurt that you never even tried to know me Before you decided what I deserved in your life Verse 2 I was there when your world was falling apart Sat in your darkness and carried your heart Never counted favors, never kept score Never asked what you could give me in return But when my world started falling apart Some of y’all couldn’t even recognize the woman you were looking at You knew my laugh But you didn’t know my tears You knew my strength But you didn’t know my fears You knew my loyalty But never knew what it cost You knew I would stay So you never feared my loss That’s the truth that’ll probably hurt the most I wasn’t hard to love I was just easy to take for granted Because I kept loving you through everything you did CHORUS This is my brutal honesty You didn’t just hurt me, you changed me You broke pieces nobody else could see While I kept smiling like I was supposed to be You took my loyalty and called it weakness Took my forgiveness and called it freedom You thought my heart would always understand But even a strong woman needs somebody to hold her hand This is my brutal honesty I’m not angry that you couldn’t love me right I’m hurt that you never even tried to know me Before you decided what I deserved in your life BRIDGE And yes, I cried. More than you’ll ever know. I questioned myself. I wondered what was wrong with me. I wondered why being good Never seemed to be enough. But here’s the part you didn’t see… I never stopped being a good woman. I just stopped giving good parts of me to people who didn’t know what they had. FINAL CHORUS This is my brutal honesty Look past the anger and you’ll see me Not just the woman you think you broke But the woman who still has love left to give I’m bruised, but my soul ain’t bitter I’m wounded, but my heart still remembers Every person I helped Every person I loved Every time I chose somebody else when I should’ve chosen me So don’t confuse my silence for weakness Don’t mistake my distance for hate I’m finally learning that protecting my heart doesn’t make me cold It means I finally know its weight OUTRO You hurt somebody real. Somebody who loved you. Somebody who would’ve given you everything. And you may never understand what you took from me. But I do. That’s my brutal honesty.
