Gentle With My Scars (Remix)

[Verse 1] I still reach for love like it might bite. I’ve learned the shape of a lie from the way it smiles. I’ve learned how a hand can close around your throat without ever touching skin. So yes, I’m scared. Scared of hope showing up in a clean shirt and asking for my number. Scared of kindness being a costume with the tags cut off and the seams coming loose when I get close. [Pre-Chorus] But I am still here. Still wanting. Still standing in the doorway of my own life with my heart in both hands. I want someone who tells the truth even when it’s ugly. Someone who can sit with my pauses and not call them broken. [Chorus] Be honest with me be kind to me be gentle with all my scars Be honest with me be kind to me and stay when I’m hard to love [Verse 2] I carry old bruises like invisible luggage. Some nights they unpack themselves in the dark, and I swear I can hear my past moving around the room. I know my flaws. I know my edges. I know the way I can flinch when a voice gets loud, when a door closes too fast, when silence feels like a trick. I am not asking to be perfect. I am asking to be met with steady eyes and an open chair and a place to rest without performing my worth. [Pre-Chorus] If love comes, let it come honest. Let it come slow. Let it know my name and not confuse my wounds for the whole of me. I want my final years to smell like peace and fresh bread and somebody laughing because they know me and stayed anyway. [Chorus] Be honest with me be kind to me be gentle with all my scars Be honest with me be kind to me and stay when I’m hard to love [Bridge] I’m not asking for a miracle. Just a real one. A person who can say, “I see you,” and mean it. A person who can hold my damaged parts like they are not a burden, like they are proof I survived. [Final Chorus] Be honest with me be kind to me be gentle with all my scars Be honest with me be kind to me and stay when I’m hard to love Stay with my flaws stay with my tears stay with the years I gave to fear Be honest with me be kind to me that’s how I’ll know it’s love