[Verse 1] I wish you could see yourself The way that others do I wish that you could finally see What has always still been true No matter what has happened Or what you failed to do Your flaws and all your failures Do not define you One day you’ll realize Those moments all moved on No one else remembers now Your words coming out wrong The times you thought you needed too much Or asked for too much care You gave away so much of you And got back far less than your share [Pre-Chorus] The battle in your brain each day Is stealing all your light You know exactly what you need But still can’t make it right There’s something buried deep inside Still hiding out in plain sight And I can see how tired you are From trying every night [Chorus] You were never asking for too much You were asking the wrong person You keep pouring out your love Wasting it on something uncertain You don’t need anyone’s approval You don’t have to disappear Who you are is more than enough For the right one to stay right here [Verse 2] You don’t need to hold onto the past Or what no longer serves Just because pain feels like home Doesn’t mean that pain’s deserved I know you think that happy is dull And chaos feels more real But weathering somebody else’s storm Won’t help your own heart heal No matter what you’ve done before The lies, the guilt, the shame You don’t have to carry them round Or wear them like your name Your gut is right, you know it is You feel it in your bones What you think will make you happy now Will never make you whole [Pre-Chorus] You’ve come too far to lose yourself To patterns dressed as love You may be scared and self-conscious now But you are still strong enough The signs are there, the truth is there You feel it when it starts The life that’s really meant for you Will not keep breaking your heart [Chorus] You were never asking for too much You were asking the wrong person You keep pouring out your love Wasting it on something uncertain You don’t need anyone’s approval You don’t have to disappear Who you are is more than enough For the right one to stay right here [Bridge] It took so much self-work to get here To undo what you survived The childhood you once called normal Taught you how to dim your light You were never not enough That was never yours to hold It was pain in other people Trying to make your spirit fold You’re scared that you are too much So you run back to what burns bright But anything that burns this hot Could kill you in its blaze tonight Be kinder to yourself Think what you would tell a friend I know it would sound softer Than the way you’re convinced this story ends You’re so afraid of being seen You shrink and stay so small But your light is dimming now And that says it all You said it felt like screaming In a crowded room unheard Trying to turn sideways and disappear Without one more spoken word You don’t have to be perfect Tiny, passive, good, or cool You don’t have to be everything Or play somebody’s fool [Final Chorus] You were never asking for too much You were asking the wrong person You kept pouring out your love Wasting it on something uncertain You don’t need anyone’s approval You don’t have to disappear Who you are is more than enough And the right one will make that clear [Outro - Soft] Accept reality as it is Not what you wish could be You were never asking for too much You just gave it all too freely And maybe the love you’ve been chasing The one you begged to find Has to start with giving yourself The grace to be alive
