Little Girl Verse 1 Mom… I’ve been trying to write this song A hundred different ways. But every time I start, I’m seven years old again, Looking for words That never came. I blamed you for Dad leaving. I thought you chose that life. Little girls don’t understand That grown-ups lose their fights. I carried questions Too heavy for my hands. So I turned my hurt into anger, Hoping you’d understand. Pre-Chorus You saw a loud little girl, But I was really A broken one. Chorus I wasn’t trying to make your life harder. I was just a little girl Trying to understand Why my whole world Always felt like it was falling apart. Every time you thought I was lying, Maybe I just didn’t know How to tell the truth. Because the truth was scary, And I was scared All the time. Verse 2 There were people That never felt safe to me. I couldn’t explain why. I just knew Something felt wrong. I’d try to tell you, Then freeze halfway through. How do you find the words When you’re still a child? After a while, I stopped trying. Because every time I felt unheard, I learned another way To hide. Lying wasn’t who I was. It was armor. It was survival. It was the only thing That made me feel Like I had control. I started fights with the boys at school, Not because I loved to fight, But because I couldn’t stand Watching another little girl cry. If I could stop someone else From feeling what I felt, Maybe she’d never have to wonder Why nobody came. Maybe I was trying To save them, Because no one Had saved me. Pre-Chorus No little girl Should have to protect herself From the world. Chorus I wasn’t trying to make your life harder. I was trying to survive mine. Every slammed door, Every tear, Every time I pushed you away, I was hoping You’d come back And choose me anyway. Verse 3 Then my little sister came. She changed my whole life. I loved her Before I even knew How to love myself. She wasn’t the reason I felt broken. She became The reason I kept going. Sometimes I felt Like I had to grow up too fast, Like I was helping raise The little girl I already loved so much. But I’d do it all again, Because she gave me A piece of hope I didn’t know I still had. Then I’d hear you singing, “Sweet thang… Don’t you know you’re my everything?” I’d smile, Because for those few minutes I believed you. I just wish I’d known How to believe it After the music stopped. Bridge Mom, I know now You weren’t trying To hurt me. You were carrying pain I couldn’t see. But I need you to know The little girl inside me Spent years believing She was too much. Too loud. Too broken. Too hard to love. She wasn’t. She was scared. She was trying to survive Things she never should’ve had to carry. She didn’t need perfection. She just needed To know She was safe. Final Chorus I wasn’t your difficult daughter. I wasn’t your angry daughter. I wasn’t your lying daughter. I was a little girl Trying to survive A world That didn’t make sense. I blamed you For things You couldn’t control. I blamed myself For things That were never my fault. But if this song Does one thing, I hope it lets you meet The little girl You couldn’t see, Even on the days She didn’t know How to show it. Because no matter How broken I became, I never stopped Wanting My mom.
