The Girl Meant to Stand Alone

Verse 1 I learned real young how to swallow pain Smile through thunder, dance through rain Hold the walls up with shaking hands While everybody watched me cave again Every scar became a warning sign Every tear got called “too much” every time So I stitched my heart up in the dark And told the world I was doing fine Pre-Chorus Cause every time I let somebody close Something breaks, somebody goes Maybe love and me were never meant To survive the weight I hold Chorus I’m the girl they shouldn’t love Too cursed, too cracked, too hard to touch The one who burns her hands just trying to keep Everybody else safe from the flood I’m the soldier built for war Not the girl worth fighting for So I bite my tongue, stand tall, stay cold Cause every time I show weakness Everything falls apart again And I was taught Broken girls survive alone Verse 2 People read my fear as attitude Read my silence like I’m being cruel But they never saw the nights I begged For one safe hand to pull me through I became steel cause I had to be A loaded smile and anxiety If I collapse then who survives? Who keeps breathing when nobody sees? Pre-Chorus And maybe I’m just too damaged now Too much smoke to put fire out Maybe loving me’s a losing game Maybe I was born to drown Chorus I’m the girl they shouldn’t love Too cursed, too cracked, too hard to touch The one who carries everybody’s weight Till her own bones turn to dust I’m the soldier built for war Never soft, never needing more Cause every time I let my armor slip The whole damn world starts caving in Bridge But what if I’m not poison? What if I’m just tired? What if all this strength they praise Was built inside a fire? What if the girl they call “too much” Was just never held enough? Final Chorus Maybe I deserve real love Even bruised and terrified to trust Maybe strong doesn’t mean I have to bleed Just to prove I’m worthy of enough Maybe soldiers still need saving Maybe hearts like mine aren’t fading Maybe all this time I survived because I had to — Not because I was born alone Outro So if my hands still shake sometimes If my voice still breaks at night That doesn’t mean I’m cursed… It just means I survived.