Small hands… big storms… Exiled from the start… always set apart… I carried it all… until I couldn’t anymore… [Verse 1 – Childhood] Small hands clenched in the shadows, hiding from the roar Voices sharp as broken glass, slamming every door I swallowed every scream they threw, felt the weight of tears not mine They called me “too sensitive,” the problem child, every time Absorbing all their poison, turning black and blue inside A bleeding open heart just to keep their world alive [Pre-Chorus] Year after year the mirror cracked, the blame carved in my skin From boy to man the cycle spun, the same nightmare again [Chorus] On the edge of death, destruction calling out my name Pills in my palm, the darkness laughing at this game I stood right there, one breath from letting go forever But something deep inside me whispered, “Wait… you were never the problem… You were always the answer.” [Verse 2 – Young Adulthood: Family Exile] Young man cast from the table, the door slammed in my face Family exile for feeling, for taking up too much space No letters, no calls, just silence colder than the grave They said I was the poison, the one who couldn’t be saved Packed bags on the porch like garbage they’d outgrown Segregated from the bloodline, left to wander all alone Watched their holidays glow from the outside looking in The feeling son erased — their greatest unspoken sin [Verse 3 – Later Adulthood] Released into a world that still demanded I fix and feel Relationships like battlefields, they drained me, wondered why They said I felt too much, too loud, too broken for their peace Left me empty on the floor while they found their sweet release Every fight, every goodbye, the same old ghosts returned I carried all their wreckage, and still they called me burned [Chorus] On the edge of death, destruction calling out my name Pills in my palm, the darkness laughing at this game I stood right there, one breath from letting go forever But something deep inside me whispered, “Wait… you were never the problem… You were always the answer.” [Verse 4 – The Breaking Point] Nights blurred into numbness, razor thoughts cutting deep Woke up in hospital beds with promises I couldn’t keep Friends faded, mirrors lied, the weight became too much I screamed into the silence, “God, why am I never enough?” Every boundary I tried to build, they tore it down with ease Till I stood at the cliff’s edge, begging for release [Extended Bridge – The Awakening (building from intimate to roaring)] Then the room went still… no more noise, no more blame A quiet voice inside my chest finally spoke my name All the years of taking hits, of being told I was the curse Were just their fear of feeling… and I was the light they tried to reverse The exile, the silence, the doors they locked me behind Were never mine to carry… I was never broken, I was whole I saw the child, the banished son, still shining through the scars Open heart, not damaged goods — a lighthouse in the dark No more shrinking for their comfort, no more begging to belong I forgive what I can… but this heart has learned its song [Final Chorus – Triumphant, full band + choir-like backing vocals] I’m awake now on the edge, no longer falling down Rising from the ashes, wearing victory like a crown Every scar becomes a story, every never holding me down. I was never the problem in their twisted, painful game I am the answer… breaking every link, rewriting my own name! I am the answer… the one who feels it all and still stands tall I am the answer… the heart that learned to love itself through it all! [Outro – Soaring then intimate resolution] Yeah… I am the solution… The open heart that finally learned to breathe… Never the problem… Always the light they couldn’t see… (Now I see… now I’m free… from every exile inside of me…) I am the solution… I am home.
