Verse 1 They told me be quiet, be smaller, don’t shine Like I was a burden before I had lines I learned how to vanish, I learned how to freeze Carry the storm and fall down to my knees Every dark doorway still lives in my chest Every old echo still steals at my breath I wore their words like they were my skin And called it truth though it never was within Pre-Chorus But a child is not shame A child is not blame And love should have never looked like pain Chorus What happened to me was never mine Not the fear, not the wound, not the lie I was a child reaching out for the light Needing safe hands, needing somebody kind If you’re out there barely surviving tonight With a heart full of ghosts and tears in your eyes Hear me now, sweet soul, this is your sign What happened to you was never yours And what happened to me was never mine Verse 2 Now I read every room, every shift, every face Still bracing my heart like there’s danger in grace I want to be held and not disappear Want love to come close and not wake up my fear I want peace in my body, soft sheets, quiet nights I want to trust love and not live in a fight Want to look in the mirror and finally see A woman still worthy of tenderness and peace Pre-Chorus They buried my voice They shattered my trust But I am still here, and that still means enough Final Chorus What happened to me was never mine Not the shame, not the weight, not the lie I was never too broken to rise in time I was a child, and I deserved more life If you’re out there learning how to stay alive With a cracked-open heart and a fire inside Take this truth and let it rewrite What happened to us was never ours Now we leave it behind Outro I am not what they did I am what survived
