I learned how to breathe Under pressure and doubt How to stand in the noise Without screaming it out Every promise I kept Every lie I ignored Still echoes at night Through the cracks in the floor I carried the weight Of what wasn’t said I carried the blame For the words left dead You don’t feel the damage While you’re holding the line You just learn how to smile And call it fine But silence keeps score It never forgets It counts every breath And collects every debt I don’t wear the scars For sympathy I don’t need forgiveness To let me be I stood when the ground Tried to bury me I live with the weight Of what I carried I watched love turn cold From a distance away Watched faith get traded For something to say Every line I crossed Every line I drew Was a choice I made To make it through Say it straight Say it now No more shelter No more sound No relief No release Just the truth Underneath I don’t need your mercy I don’t need your light I survived the long days And the endless nights I bled in the quiet When nobody knew If this is the cost I already paid it through You don’t get to tell me What this took from me I’m still standing That’s the proof you see Now the noise is gone But the truth remains Not lighter Not clean Just awake And unchanged And unchanged
