[Verse 1] She spent her life in borrowed colors Wearing shapes that fit the room Learning how to make herself smaller So nobody felt the truth She was the keeper of the stories The quiet place where others cried Always holding every burden Never standing on her side [Pre-Chorus] Then one day she heard a whisper Beneath the noise she'd always known A voice she'd buried years ago saying "It's time to come back home" [Chorus] Nobody tells you the cost of change How the road gets lonely when you break your chains Some will smile, some will walk away When you stop giving pieces of yourself away And she cried for what was lost While learning she could stay Nobody tells you the cost of change But she'd pay it anyway [Verse 2] They said she wasn't who she used to be And maybe they were right The woman standing in the mirror now No longer dimmed her light She stopped saying yes to every sorrow Stopped carrying what wasn't hers And some who loved the old arrangement No longer knew her world [Pre-Chorus] She never became somebody different Despite what some believed She was only finding the woman She'd spent a lifetime asking to be [Chorus] Nobody tells you the cost of change How the road gets lonely when you break your chains Some will smile, some will walk away When you stop giving pieces of yourself away And she cried for what was lost While learning she could stay Nobody tells you the cost of change But she'd pay it anyway [Outro] Nobody tells you the cost of change How the road gets lonely when you break your chains Nobody tells you the cost of change But she'd pay it anyway
