“Who Gave You the Right”

🌑 Intro (soft piano, distant violin, shaky breath) (whispered) You say I shouldn’t be afraid… But fear doesn’t ask permission to stay… 🎻 Verse 1 You say you never tried to hurt me Like fear only counts when bruises show But my hands still shake remembering The nights your anger filled the room You hovered over every silence Watching things you said I tried to hide Like I owed you every heartbeat Like my thoughts weren’t really mine And that wall beside my head still echoes With the sound of your fist in the dark You swear it wasn’t meant to hit me But it still shattered something in my heart 🌙 Pre-Chorus You want your apology To erase what survival learned But fear remembers everything Even after the fire burns 🔥 Chorus Who gave you the right To control my fear? To tell me what I felt Wasn’t real standing here? Who gave you the right To rewrite those nights? To demand forgiveness While dismissing why I cried? You don’t get to decide What safety means to me And love should never leave someone Afraid to breathe 🎹 Verse 2 You flipped that chair across the room Then swore it wasn’t aimed my way Like rage becomes less terrifying Just because my skin was safe You say I’m always twisting stories Always lying about pain But the body keeps the memory Even when the mouth can’t explain And maybe you regret the damage Maybe guilt is finally loud But healing can’t begin When truth still isn’t allowed 🌊 Pre-Chorus You don’t get to stand inside my scars And call them counterfeit Just because the wreckage Makes you uncomfortable to sit with 💥 Chorus (bigger, layered harmonies) Who gave you the right To control my fear? To silence my truth Just because you’re forced to hear? Who gave you the right To decide what hurt? Like survival only matters When the wounds look worse? You don’t get to rewrite What I lived through silently And love should never leave someone Afraid to breathe 🌑 Bridge (stripped down, emotional violin solo building) I didn’t need broken bones To know the danger lived there I didn’t need your hands on me To feel terror in the air Fear grows in shadows In slammed doors and raised tones In the way someone learns They’re safer feeling alone 🔥 Final Chorus (full emotional release) Who gave you the right To control my fear? To make me question Everything I feel? No—you don’t own my healing You don’t define my pain And your apology can’t force My nervous system to feel safe again So keep your rewritten version I’ll keep the truth with me Because love should never leave someone Afraid to breathe 🌑 Outro (soft piano fading into violin) (whispered) Fear doesn’t need permission… And neither does healing…