WHAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW [Intro] (Whispered) (Ooh…) (Yeah…) You saw a smile… (hmm…) But you never saw the truth… (ooh…) ⸻ [Verse 1] You didn’t know how many hospital walls knew my name… (my name…) Or how I learned to hide every bruise beneath the shame… (yeah…) You never counted every tear that hit the floor… (hmm…) Or watched me pray I couldn’t take one day more… (ooh…) You saw me standing… (standing…) But never saw me fall… (fall…) You never heard the silence… (silence…) Echo through those broken halls… (yeah…) ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] You only saw the version that survived… (survived…) Not the girl fighting just to stay alive… (hmm…) ⸻ [Chorus] What you didn’t know… (didn’t know…) Was every smile was hiding war… (yeah…) Every “I’m okay”… (I’m okay…) Was another lie I’d told before… (ooh…) What you didn’t know… (didn’t know…) Was I was breaking silently… (silently…) Trying to save the little life… (my baby…) Growing safely inside of me… (hmm…) ⸻ [Verse 2] Left alone for hours while he took my child away… (away…) Every second felt like years I couldn’t chase… (yeah…) Stolen things surrounding me inside my own four walls… (hmm…) His choices casting shadows where I was forced to crawl… (ooh…) Backed into a corner… (corner…) By voices closing in… (yeah…) Not just one pair of hands… (no…) But people choosing him again… (hmm…) His own father spoke words… (spoken…) No seventeen-year-old should ever hear… (never…) Those echoes still find me… (find me…) Even after all these years… (ooh…) ⸻ [Bridge] I ran… (I ran…) Again and again… (again…) Carrying a child… (my child…) Still searching for the end… (yeah…) Every road I found… (every road…) Seemed to lead me back… (back…) Pulled by fear… (fear…) Pulled by control… (control…) Pulled into the same trap… (hmm…) The marks faded… (they faded…) The memories never did… (never…) Some stains disappear from sight… (ooh…) But never leave your skin within… (yeah…) ⸻ [Final Chorus] What you didn’t know… (didn’t know…) Was I was fighting every day… (every day…) For a future neither of us… (of us…) Would have to live that way… (hmm…) What you didn’t know… (didn’t know…) Is the girl you thought was gone… (gone…) Found the strength to walk away… (walk away…) And keep walking on… (yeah…) ⸻ [Outro] (Soft) So if you ever wonder… (wonder…) Why I carry invisible scars… (ooh…) They’re reminders… (yeah…) Of everything… (everything…) You didn’t know…
