Imagined Damage

Verse 1: At my most vulnerable I was inconsolable Left alone in my pain Thunder in my chest, no shelter from the rain Your words became the walls That echo through these halls Built from what you couldn't see Now they're all that's left of me Chorus: Somehow the damage You had imagined Became my prison cage Every bar you painted there Now holds me in despair On this empty stage The person that you saw With all those fatal flaws Became who I became Your fiction turned to truth Stole away my youth And left me with the shame Verse 2: In the mirror of your doubt I learned what I'm about Fragile, broken, not enough Your prophecy of pain made tender skin so tough These scars you never made Still burn and never fade Phantom wounds that bleed so real Time can't teach this heart to heal Chorus: Somehow the damage You had imagined Became my prison cage Every bar you painted there Now holds me in despair On this empty stage The person that you saw With all those fatal flaws Became who I became Your fiction turned to truth Stole away my youth And left me with the shame Bridge: I'm searching for the key To who I used to be Before you drew these lines Around this heart of mine Maybe there's still time To leave your truth behind Final Chorus: But somehow the damage You had imagined Lives in this prison cage Though I'm learning how to see There might be more of me Beyond this pain-filled stage The person that you saw Might not be who I am at all I'm fighting to reclaim My story from your lies To see me through my eyes And break free from the shame