[Intro – spoken softly] You don’t get to rewrite my story. You don’t get to decide what I become. You walked away… and I’m the one who learned to live with it. [Verse 1 – sung lightly] Raised by ghosts of people still breathing, no father, just a shadow in the hallway, leaving. Laughed at my pain, mocked everything I loved, shared my secrets for attention instead of protecting her son. Thirteen, begging the world to love me, thinking that if I changed myself, someone might want me. She gripped the wheel like she wanted to crash us both, screamed in my face just for looking toward hope. [Pre-Chorus 1 – sung lightly, building tension] Love meant fear. Silence meant safety. Home was a battlefield, affection was a weapon. You can only beat a kid down so many times before he starts believing every lie. [Chorus – melodic + screamed layers] What if I were enough? What if someone had stayed? Would I have learned how to live, Instead of learning to break? I carry every scar like proof that I survived, But some wounds only heal When you finally stop asking why. What if I were enough? [Verse 2 – sung (low intensity) / anger building] Sixteen, abandoned, no one picking up the phone, thrown to the wolves, forced to navigate it alone. Pulled into darkness by people who knew exactly how to twist a vulnerable kid’s hunger for truth. I faced the consequence, I owned every wrong, but I refused to be the villain in their song. They still act like I’m the monster in the room — But monsters don’t claw their way back to become someone new. [Pre-Chorus 2 – sung lightly, vulnerable] They never saw the nights I almost died, or the way I begged to feel anything inside. You called me broken — I was just hurting. I wasn’t dangerous, I was desperate. [Chorus – melodic + screamed emphasis] What if I were enough? What if someone cared? Would I still be haunted by mistakes born from despair? I clawed out of hell just to stand here alive, But surviving isn’t living If the past still eats you from the inside. [Verse 3 – spoken (reflective) → sung lightly] Years later, when the world called me “danger,” I looked in the mirror and didn’t know the stranger. Thought maybe they were right — maybe I deserved the blame, Maybe I was born broken, maybe shame was my name. But the truth hit harder than any verdict or cell: I wasn’t evil. I was unprotected. And no one saves the kid everyone rejects. [Spoken Interlude – spoken firmly] “You didn’t raise me. You abandoned me. So don’t act shocked that I didn’t turn out the way you imagined.” [Bridge – sung lightly → screamed] I’m done apologizing for being a child who needed love. You don’t get to own me. I’m more than the worst moment of my life. [Breakdown – screamed] THIS IS THE LAST TIME I LET YOU LIVE IN MY HEAD. I AM NOT BROKEN — I WAS MISLED. YOU LEFT ME TO DROWN AND I LEARNED HOW TO SWIM. YOU FORGED ME IN FIRE — NOW I BURN FROM WITHIN. [Breakdown Refrain – deep screamed] I AM ENOUGH. I AM ENOUGH. I AM ENOUGH. EVEN IF YOU NEVER SAW IT. [Verse 4 – spoken (controlled anger) → sung (powerful)] I see your new life online, pretending nothing happened, smiling with your new family like I never existed. You rewrite history so you don’t have to face that you left your firstborn just to vanish without a trace. But I built myself from ashes you left behind, forged an identity from pain, and rebuilt my shattered mind. You had a chance — you could’ve stayed, but I became a man without the love you never gave. [Bridge II – sung lightly → screamed] I learned my worth without you. I found family in the ones who stayed. I am not defined by the people who rejected me. I WON’T CARRY YOUR SHAME. I WON’T BLEED FOR YOUR NAME. THE CYCLE ENDS WITH ME — THE GHOST YOU MADE IS FREE. [Post-Break – sung lightly, emotional] Nan held the line when everyone else quit. She saw a man where others only saw sin. The world turned its back, but she stayed — And that’s why I’m still here. [Final Chorus – melodic with screamed harmonies] What if I were enough? What if someone had stayed? Would I have learned how to live Instead of learning to be afraid? But now I know the truth: I AM ENOUGH. Not because you believed it… But because I finally do. [Extended Outro – spoken firmly] You didn’t break me. You just taught me exactly who I never deserved to be loyal to. I used to ask why I wasn’t good enough. Now I ask: Why did I ever think you were? [Final Outro – spoken with controlled fire] I used to whisper, “Why wasn’t I enough?” Now I can finally say: I was never the problem. You were. I didn’t lose a parent... You lost the chance to know the man I became. [Instrumental Ending]
