[Verse 1] I kept the file I could have erased I kept the pain they offered to remove Every time I touch the healed skin I remember what I lived through There were safer roads around it There were choices without cost But I won’t call the way I came here A mistake because it hurt [Chorus] A beautiful scar Rising underneath the light Every line I tried to hide Connects the pieces of my life A beautiful scar Not the shape of what is gone It is proof that something broke me And I still kept moving on [Verse 2] There are words that someone gave me There are wounds I gave away I won’t rewrite them into beauty I won’t make them disappear I can carry what was broken Without letting it decide Every mark becomes a border Between who I was and who survived [Pre-Chorus] Forgiving is not forgetting Healing is not going back I can live beside the memory Without becoming what it says [Bridge] Erase the past And I might feel light But lightness alone Will never make me fly Weight keeps my feet Against the earth And with this body I can choose tomorrow [Final Chorus] A beautiful scar Rising in the morning light Every place that had to mend Has made another version of my life A beautiful scar I am finite, I am flawed That is why the time I’m given Can be loved before it’s gone [Outro] I will not hide What carried me here
