Places No One Looked

(Verse 1)

Don’t tell them I was strong

Don’t paint me like a warrior who never fell

I was just a person holding on

With a thousand stories I never got to tell

I learned how to laugh through the cracks

I learned how to smile when I was breaking inside

Everyone saw me coming back

Nobody saw the battles I survived

(Pre-Chorus)

I was a heart with a heavy weight

A candle burning in the rain

I kept giving pieces of myself away

Just hoping someone would stay

(Chorus)

And if my name becomes a memory

Please remember who I really was

I wasn’t cold, I wasn’t empty

I was just someone who needed love

I loved too much, I stayed too long

I held on when everyone moved on

I wasn’t looking for an ending

I was looking for a night where the hurting was gone

If heaven has a place for broken souls

I hope it feels like finally coming home

’Cause I spent my whole life searching

For a little bit of peace to call my own

(Verse 2)

I stood beside the people leaving

I carried words they never said

I gave my heart without a reason

While loneliness slept beside my bed

And maybe that’s the cruelest part

Nobody knew the war beneath my skin

I kept protecting everyone else’s heart

While mine was begging to be let in

(Pre-Chorus)

I was not made of stone

I was just tired of being alone

I was bleeding in the places

Nobody thought to look

(Chorus)

And if my name becomes a memory

Please remember who I really was

I wasn’t cold, I wasn’t empty

I was just someone who needed love

I loved too much, I stayed too long

I sang my pain inside these songs

I wasn’t asking for forever

I was asking for one night to feel I belonged

(Bridge)

Maybe someday someone will see

The battles hidden underneath

The silent tears, the quiet prayers

The weight I carried everywhere

And they’ll know I tried

God, I tried

Even on the nights I lost my light

(Final Chorus)

So if my name becomes a memory

Don’t say I never felt a thing

Say I was a heart that kept on beating

Even when it hurt to breathe

I wasn’t cold, I wasn’t heartless

I was a soul that needed rest

I spent my whole life searching

For a place where I could finally set down the weight

And if heaven’s real, I hope it’s peaceful

I hope there’s no more fear to fight

I hope I finally find the quiet

That I was chasing all my life

(Outro)

Don’t remember me as broken

Remember me as someone who cared

A person who loved with everything

Even when nobody knew I was scared