[Intro] [Verse 1] You came through like weather Like something that doesn't decide You knocked over everything standing And left before I could cry I looked at the wreckage you left me Looked down at my hands in the dust I could mourn who I was before you Or build something out of the rust [Pre-Chorus] I chose to build I didn't have a choice I turned your careless leaving Into something I could use [Chorus] I built this on your wreckage I built this on the wound I raised these walls from the rubble Of the month you blew through You didn't mean to matter You didn't even stay But I am everything I am now Because you looked away Oh I don’t forgive you Oh I don’t forget But I built something so beautiful On the worst thing I ever let [Verse 2] I learned faster after I had to — the air felt thin I industrialized my grieving And called it discipline I cleaned the story spotless Made it something I could say Left out the nights I couldn’t stand And the fear I swallowed each day [Pre-Chorus] I chose the version That let me survive I made a lesson of your absence Just to stay alive [Chorus] I built this on your wreckage I built this on the wound I raised these walls from the rubble Of the month you blew through You didn't mean to matter You didn't even stay But I am everything I am now Because you looked away Oh I don't forgive you Oh I don't forget But I built something so beautiful On the worst thing I ever let [Bridge] Here’s what I don’t say out loud: I was not grateful. I was wrecked. I was small in a world that felt too large. I made a choice to make what you did mean something — Because the alternative Was that it meant nothing. And I could not survive If it meant nothing. So I called it growth. I called it destiny. I called it the gift. I needed it to be a gift. [Final Chorus] I built this on your wreckage I built this on the wound I rewrote my whole becoming From the month you blew through You never knew what you cost me You never saw my fall But everything I’ve ever built Lives in the space you left in the hall Oh I don’t forgive you Oh I don’t forget But I built something so beautiful [Outro] I just wish You’d seen it.
