[Verse 1] I wasn’t built by easy days No clean roads or softer ways Just long nights learning how to breathe Through everything life threw at me And I’ve been cracked in quiet rooms Where no one saw what I walked through But something in me stayed intact Even when the world hit back [Pre-chorus] I could’ve let it turn me cold Let the bitterness take hold But I heard a softer call In the wreckage of it all [Chorus] I wasn’t built by easy days I was shaped in heavier ways But I still choose tenderness Even when it makes no sense Yeah I’ve been bent, I’ve been erased Rewritten by the things I’ve faced I wasn’t built by easy days I was built by choosing kindness after difficult ones [Verse 2] There’s a fire I keep low Not to burn, just to glow A quiet kind of rebellion Against what pain tried to sell me And I’ve learned that strength can be The way I stay soft in me When everything around me says “Protect yourself another way” [Pre-chorus] But I don’t want to become What I had to rise from So I let the softer part Keep its place inside my heart [Chorus] I wasn’t built by easy days I was shaped in heavier ways But I still choose tenderness Even when it makes no sense Yeah I’ve been bent, I’ve been erased Rewritten by the things I’ve faced I wasn’t built by easy days I was built by choosing kindness after difficult ones [Bridge] (spoken / hushed neo-soul feel) Maybe that’s the real strength… Not what you survive… But what you refuse to become [Final Chorus] (more layered, ad-libs feel) I wasn’t built by easy days… But I still choose love this way… Even when it costs me more… Even when it’s a closed door… Yeah I’ve been bent, I’ve been remade… But I still glow in what remains… I wasn’t built by easy days… I was built by choosing kindness after difficult ones
