[Verse 1] I learned how to smile with the weight of the world sitting quiet behind my eyes, How to walk through the smoke like it never could touch me, even on the hardest nights, And I know how to carry the fear in a room without ever letting it show in my face, Like if I stay steady enough for the both of us, maybe the pain will lose its place. I’ve always been good at holding the pieces together when everything’s coming undone, At finding a little bit of peace in the chaos and giving it out to everyone, But nobody talks about how it feels when you’re the one they all depend on to stand, When your hands keep healing the whole damn world, but nobody thinks to ask if they can hold your hand. [Pre-Chorus] So when your whole sky feels heavy And the dark comes in too fast, I’ll be the voice that finds you And reminds you this won’t last. When your heartbeat turns to thunder And your hope gets hard to find, Lean your hurt against my shoulders, I’ll carry what you leave behind. [Chorus] I’m your lifeline when the night gets colder and the silence starts to feel too loud, When you’re one breath from giving up and too worn down to say it out loud, I’ll pull you out from under all the hurt you’ve been hiding beneath your pride, And hold your heart so gently that it remembers how to survive. If the whole world turns its back on you and leaves you there to fight alone, I’ll be the light that stays with you until the dark feels less like home, So when you feel like breaking under everything you never say, I’m your lifeline, I’m your lifeline, I’m not going away. [Post-Chorus] I’m not going away, Even when the worst of you is all you think remains, I’m not going away, I’ll love you through the hurt you hide and all the things you cannot name. [Verse 2] There’s a kind of sorrow that teaches you early how to be soft without being weak, How to turn your wounds into something useful, how to let compassion speak, And I’ve worn that lesson like gold on my skin, like sunlight I refuse to lose, ’Cause the world gets cruel when it sees your heart, and kindness is still the thing I choose. But being strong ain’t the same as being untouched, and people forget that all the time, They see the calm, they hear the laugh, they never see what lives behind, The little fractures, the sleepless thoughts, the tears that never make a sound, The way you learn to keep standing tall while your own soul’s halfway to the ground. Still, I would do it all again if it means that you make it through, If my voice is the thing that reaches you when you forget what’s still true, Because some of us were made to be a refuge when the storm won’t end, The kind of love that doesn’t ask for glory, only asks to help you breathe again. [Pre-Chorus] So when your whole sky feels heavy And the dark comes in too fast, I’ll be the voice that finds you And reminds you this won’t last. When your heartbeat turns to thunder And your hope gets hard to find, Lean your hurt against my shoulders, I’ll carry what you leave behind. [Chorus] I’m your lifeline when the night gets colder and the silence starts to feel too loud, When you’re one breath from giving up and too worn down to say it out loud, I’ll pull you out from under all the hurt you’ve been hiding beneath your pride, And hold your heart so gently that it remembers how to survive. If the whole world turns its back on you and leaves you there to fight alone, I’ll be the light that stays with you until the dark feels less like home, So when you feel like breaking under everything you never say, I’m your lifeline, I’m your lifeline, I’m not going away. [Bridge] Maybe I was never meant to be the girl who gets to fall apart in someone else’s arms, Maybe I was built to be the shelter, to be the calm inside the alarm, To be the hands that hold the shaking, to be the warmth that outlasts fear, To tell the truth nobody tells enough: that even the strongest hearts need someone near. And maybe that’s the deepest kind of love — Not the kind that burns too bright and leaves, But the kind that stays when nothing’s pretty, The kind that helps a broken soul still believe. So if I have to be the light in the distance, If I have to be the last thing between you and the dark, Then I will, Even if it means giving you the pieces I keep hiding from my own heart. [Final Chorus] I’m your lifeline when the night gets colder and the silence starts to feel too loud, When you’re one breath from giving up and too worn down to say it out loud, I’ll pull you out from under all the hurt you’ve been hiding beneath your pride, And hold your heart so gently that it remembers how to survive. If the whole world turns its back on you and leaves you there to fight alone, I’ll be the light that stays with you until the dark feels less like home, So when you feel like breaking under everything you never say, I’m your lifeline, I’m your lifeline, I’m not going away.
