My Own Name

Oh Oh-oh Oh My own name They had names for me in every season Some I wore and some I couldn’t shake Some were built from other people’s fear Some were just the bruise turned into sound I got buried under all the language Under every version I became Till the morning hit me like an answer And the silence said what still remained Now the static’s lifting from the letters Now the dust is falling from the frame And I feel it in my chest before I hear it Like a door remembering its key My own name Coming back through the dark again My own name Cutting clean through the noise in my head So clear Like the first light after rain When the whole world quiets down I can hear my own name Oh-oh My own name Oh-oh Clear as day now Oh-oh My own name I am not the label of the damage Not the role they needed me to play Not the shape I took to make it through them Not the price I paid to stay the same There’s a voice beneath the old disguises There’s a pulse beneath the borrowed shame And the more I let the light get near me The more it sounds like who I am Now the room is bigger than the shadows Now the air is warmer when I breathe And I feel it in my bones before I say it Like a room remembering my shape My own name Coming back through the dark again My own name Cutting clean through the noise in my head So clear Like the first light after rain When the whole world quiets down I can hear my own name Not what they called me When I was breaking Not what they needed To make me small Not what the fear said Not what the hurt meant Not what the night wrote Across the wall It was mine Under every scar It was mine Under every flame And I hear it now I say it now My own name Coming back through the dark again My own name Cutting clean through the noise in my head So clear Like the first light after rain When the whole world quiets down I can hear my own name Oh-oh My own name Oh-oh Clear as day now Oh-oh My own name