**Verse 1** Sorry for the space I took Sorry for the noise I made Sorry for the way I loved Like love itself could be a blade Sorry for the tears at midnight Sorry for the things I missed Sorry for the days I broke down Sorry I existed like this Sorry for the questions Sorry for the fear Sorry for needing someone When I thought I should disappear Sorry for the anger Sorry for the grief Sorry for every moment I wasn’t easy to believe **Pre-Chorus** I learned to apologize Before anyone could ask Built a language out of guilt And wore it like a mask **Chorus** Apologies for existing That’s the letter I kept writing To every room I ever entered To every heart I thought I burdened Apologies for existing For being wounded, being loud For needing love, for needing help For taking up a little ground But I’m tired of saying sorry For surviving what I did Tired of shrinking every scar So somebody else feels big Maybe I don’t owe the world An apology for being here Maybe existing Was never the thing I needed to forgive **Verse 2** I loved five hearts with everything I had inside my hands I built a future out of scraps And made a home where I could stand I healed while I was mothering I broke and still showed up I learned the hard way love can be Both endless and not enough And when the lies came burning Through the walls I tried to raise I blamed myself for ashes For far too many days I thought being in the wreckage Meant I caused the fall I wore their stories like a sentence And believed them all **Pre-Chorus** But surviving someone else’s fire Doesn’t make the smoke your name And being there when something shattered Doesn’t mean you made it break **Chorus** Apologies for existing That’s the letter I kept writing To every room I ever entered To every heart I thought I burdened Apologies for existing For being wounded, being loud For needing love, for needing help For taking up a little ground But I’m tired of saying sorry For surviving what I did Tired of shrinking every scar So somebody else feels big Maybe I don’t owe the world An apology for being here Maybe existing Was never the thing I needed to forgive **Bridge** I am not the storm I was not the fire I was the one still reaching When the whole world burned higher I was the one still loving When the future disappeared I was the one still standing Even when I lived in fear I was too much And never enough Until I finally saw Those were cages built from pain Not the measure of my worth at all I was the mother in the wreckage The woman carrying blame The girl who learned too early To apologize for having a name And I am done Not healed Not finished Not free from every scar But done Calling existence My original sin **Breakdown** I am here. I am still here. Not because I never broke. Not because I never failed. Because I kept loving Through all of it. And that counts. **Final Chorus** No more apologies for existing No more begging for my place No more turning every heartbreak Into evidence against my name No more apologies for existing For being human, being scared For loving deeply, grieving loudly For needing someone there I can carry what was mine Without carrying every lie I can love all five forever Without blaming myself every night I can remember what was taken And still build what comes next I don’t owe the world An apology For drawing another breath **Outro** I was never the burden I thought I had become I was wounded I was grieving I was trying I was love So this is the last apology I’ll write for being alive And even this one I’m taking back.
