[Verse 1 – childhood] They taught me early how to kneel, how to smile and not to feel, how a gifted hand should wait while others chose my every fate. I sang too loud, I dreamed too far, they dimmed my light, they named my scar, said, “talent’s dangerous, my dear, obedience keeps the world in gear.” [Pre-Chorus] Every door was locked with love, every chain was called “enough”, and I learned to call it care when someone else controlled my air. [Chorus] You can bruise my skin, you can bend my spine, but you will never own what’s mine inside. You can break my voice, teach me how to obey, but my mind is a fortress you’ll never take. [Verse 2 – forced marriage] They dressed me up in borrowed vows, a future written by their mouths, said, “this is safety, this is right”, while I vanished every night. He spoke in rules, he ruled with hands, called fear “love”, called pain “plan”, and every no I dared to say was paid for twice the next day. [Pre-Chorus 2] Walls don’t need a locked-in room, sometimes rings are made of doom, and silence learns to scream when nobody hears what it means. [Chorus – stripped] You can hurt my body, teach it how to fall, but you will never be my god at all. You can try to end me one command at a time, but my mind is a fortress and it’s finally mine. [Bridge – breaking point] One day fear just lost its grip, I felt it crack, I felt it slip, not loud, not brave, not clean, just one more breath that wasn’t his. I didn’t win, I didn’t roar, I simply walked out of the war. [Verse 3 – freedom] Now I choose the sound I make, every step, every mistake, I build with hands once told to wait, I write the life they couldn’t dictate. Some nights the past still knows my name, but it doesn’t get to stay. [Final Chorus – quiet strength] You can scar my past, you can haunt my sleep, but I am more than what you did to me. I am not your silence, I am not your shame, my mind is my fortress and I reclaimed my name. [Outro] I don’t need forgiveness, I don’t need applause, I survived. And that was never yours.
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