You wore a halo made of broken glass, Smiled at the world while you cut me in half. Your words were thunder in a house of fear, I learned to disappear just to survive the years. You blamed me for storms I never made, Turned love into a debt I could never repay. I was a child with bruises no one could see, Begging for warmth from the hands that buried me. [ Pre-Chorus ] You called it love, but love don’t leave scars, Love don’t make a daughter afraid of who they are. [ Chorus ] I was raised in the shadow of a mother’s war, Taught to bleed quietly on a broken floor. You broke my wings, but you couldn’t kill the sky, Now I’m learning how to live instead of asking why. And every tear you made me cry, Turned to fire the day I stopped asking for your light. I survived your darkness, now I finally see— Your poison was never the whole of me. [ Verse 2 ] I carried your anger like chains on my chest, Believing somehow I deserved less. You made guilt feel holy, pain feel deserved, But survival taught me my soul still worked. I hear your voice when the silence grows loud, Still unlearning shame I was wrapped around. But I’m not the little girl begging to be chosen, I’m the woman rising from everything broken. [Bridge] You don’t get to own my tears anymore, Don’t get to haunt every unlocked door. I buried the version of me that stayed small, And built a fire from the ashes of it all. [Final Chorus] I was raised in the shadow of a mother’s war, But I don’t live there anymore. You broke my wings, but I learned how to fly, Phoenix-heart beating while the old me died. And every scar you tried to hide, Became the proof that somehow I survived. You were the storm, but I became the sea— And your poison was never the whole of me.
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