[INTRO] Dear me I know That's a strange way to start a love letter But I've written enough of them to everybody else Tonight this one's mine [VERSE 1] First page started with a tear stain Blue ink running through his last name Couldn't write goodbye without shaking So I wrote, "Baby girl, you're gonna make it" Didn't believe a word that night But I read it back by morning light "You're still beautiful You're still worthy What somebody couldn't hold Don't make you empty" Closed the book Put it beside my bed Next night I picked it up again [PRE-CHORUS] Dear me I'm sorry I abandoned you Trying to make somebody stay Dear heart I'm sorry I kept blaming you For loving all the way So tonight I'm gonna tell you Everything I needed to hear And maybe if I write it enough One day I'll believe me [CHORUS] This is a love letter to myself Every word I kept waiting To hear from somebody else You're enough! You're worthy! You're beautiful! You're free! Baby, all that love You've been giving away Save a little for me (For me) (Save a little for me) Page by page Line by line I started putting My heart back inside A love letter to myself Signed Me! [VERSE 2] Second page said, "I forgive you" For ignoring what you already knew For calling breadcrumbs a banquet Just because you were hungry for truth I forgive you For staying too long For turning red flags Into love songs For shrinking your needs So somebody could reach them For teaching a man How to love you While forgetting You needed teaching too (Love yourself) Then something happened Around page twenty-three The words stopped sounding Like apologies Started sounding like poetry Poetry caught rhythm Rhythm found melody And somewhere between Healing and harmony My journal Started singing back to me [CHORUS] This is a love letter to myself Every word I kept waiting To hear from somebody else You're enough! You're worthy! You're beautiful! You're free! Baby, all that love You've been giving away Bring it home to me (Bring it home) (Back to me) Page by page Line by line I started putting My heart back inside A love letter to myself Signed Me! [BRIDGE] I wrote: "You deserve consistency." Turned that into a chorus. "You don't have to earn love." That became a verse. "Stop calling pain passion." That one needed bass. "You can miss him and still choose yourself." That became my favorite song. And then I realized I wasn't writing about him anymore. I was writing Myself back into existence! [VERSE 3] Ink to page! Pain to phrase! Phrase to rhythm! Rhythm to stage! Tears to notes, Notes to truth Every song became living proof That heartbreak ain't gotta Have the final word Sometimes pain just needs A place to be heard I gave mine paper Gave mine sound Gave mine somewhere To lay itself down Then picked up every piece That fell out of me Turned wounds into words Words into melody Funny I thought I was documenting How somebody broke my heart Whole time I was writing instructions For putting it back together [FINAL CHORUS] This is my love letter to myself I stopped waiting on the words From anybody else I am enough I'm worthy I'm beautiful I'm free And all that love I kept giving away I finally poured into me (Into me) (Pour it into me) (I finally chose me) Page by page Line by line I put this beautiful Heart back inside These love letters to myself Became songs And those songs Became mine [BREAKDOWN] Now every time Somebody hears my music They're reading pages From a journal They were never supposed to see Every harmony Was healing Every verse Was a conversation With the woman in the mirror Every chorus Was another way of saying "I didn't leave you." (Never again) And maybe that's why The songs feel like love letters Because they are [OUTRO] Dear me Thank you For staying Thank you For writing Thank you For loving me Until I remembered how P.S. Keep writing (Write it down) (Sing it out) (Love yourself) (Write it down) (Sing it out) Signed Me!
