[Verse 1]
I learned to make a meal from whatever was left,
One coat for the cold, one hand on my chest.
At home, every room felt a mile away,
I kept my hurt tucked where I couldn't say.
Outside, the block taught me how to stay sharp,
Long walks back with a storm in my heart.
No one asked what the silence was for,
So I made my own shelter out of every closed door.
[Chorus]
I was raised where the love didn't reach,
Alone with a thousand things I couldn't teach.
Now I put every feeling in a line I can say,
Turn the weight that I carried into words on the page.
I got a voice, I got a name, I got something to prove,
Every bar tells the truth, every verse lets me move.
[Verse 2]
I watched the shop gate roll down at dusk,
Shoelaces frayed, but I still had trust
In the part of me nobody got to break,
In the breath I saved for the day I'd speak.
No polished story, no borrowed disguise,
Just years in my chest and the truth in my eyes.
I write what I felt when I couldn't explain,
Put the hurt in a sentence, give shape to the pain.
[Chorus]
I was raised where the love didn't reach,
Alone with a thousand things I couldn't teach.
Now I put every feeling in a line I can say,
Turn the weight that I carried into words on the page.
I got a voice, I got a name, I got something to prove,
Every bar tells the truth, every verse lets me move.
[Bridge]
If you know that room where nobody sees,
That long walk home with a chest full of needs,
You don't have to hide what you carried alone—
Say it plain, stand tall, make the words your own.
[Final Chorus]
I was raised where the love didn't reach,
Alone with a thousand things I couldn't teach.
Now I put every feeling in a line I can say,
Turn the weight that I carried into words on the page.
I got a voice, I got a name, I got something to prove,
Every bar tells the truth, every verse lets me move.
[Outro]
I found the words.
I found my way.
What I couldn't say then,
I can say today.