Triggered Verse 1 It was just a sound, just a word, just a look But it hit like a match to a page in a book Sudden flash, sudden fire, sudden ache in my chest Dragged a ghost from the dark that I never laid to rest I was standing right here, now I’m back over there Same cold breath, same weight, same poison in the air You don’t see the change, but my body always knows When the past kicks the door and the panic starts to grow Pre-Chorus I hate how fast it happens No warning when it starts One second I am breathing The next, I’m falling apart Chorus I got triggered Now I’m shaking in my skin Every locked door, every scar Comes alive again I’m not crazy I’m just carrying the burn When the smallest thing can touch a nerve And make the whole world turn I got triggered And I’m fighting to come back From the echo of a memory Always fading into black Verse 2 I can hear it in the silence, feel it under my bones Like a flood through the cracks, like a voice through the phone I’m so tired of pretending that I’m over it now When one spark can light the wreckage I keep trying to drown And I’m angry at the past, and I’m angry at today Angry that it still has power in a thousand little ways I didn’t ask to relive what I barely survived But my mind keeps pulling fragments just to prove I’m still alive Pre-Chorus I hate how fast it happens How it steals the air I need Turns my blood into lightning Turns my fear into heat Chorus I got triggered Now I’m shaking in my skin Every locked door, every scar Comes alive again I’m not crazy I’m just carrying the burn When the smallest thing can touch a nerve And make the whole world turn I got triggered And I’m fighting to come back From the echo of a memory Always fading into black Bridge Don’t tell me “calm down” Don’t tell me “let it go” You don’t know the war my body knows I’m learning how to stay When everything says run Trying to find the light When the dark comes undone Final Chorus I got triggered But I’m not gone for good I’m still here beneath the fear Doing the best I could I’m not broken Even when the panic cracks I’m more than what happened to me And I’m finding my way back I got triggered Yeah, it hit me like a wave But I’m still breathing through the storm And I will not be its slave
