[Verse 1]
Four walls feel like cages
My name echoes off the paint
Clock ticks in the kitchen
I’m breathing
But I feel faint
Photos on the hallway
Smile I never got to wear
They call me what I’m not
And say it’s love
Say it’s care
[Pre-Chorus]
I press my lips
Hide the truth on my tongue
But in the mirror I’m already sung
They say “wait
You’ll understand someday”
But someday feels so far away
[Chorus]
I got pink suitcases in my mind
Packed with all the lives they left behind
I am a woman
I know it in my bones
Why can’t they just let me come home
If I can’t move out
I’ll move inside
Build a little room where I don’t hide
I am a woman
Say it till it drowns their doubt
One day I’ll roll these pink suitcases out (oh-oh)
[Verse 2]
Dinner at the table
Questions that are really knives
“Why can’t you stay normal?”
Like I didn’t fight to stay alive
Every “he” cuts deeper
But I’m learning not to bleed
Staring at my phone screen
Searching for a place I can be
[Pre-Chorus]
I trace my eyeliner like drawing a door
Each little stroke says “I’m not yours”
They say “phase” like it’s some small thing
But this is my whole heart opening
[Chorus]
I got pink suitcases in my mind
Packed with all the lives they left behind
I am a woman
I know it in my bones
Why can’t they just let me come home
If I can’t move out
I’ll move inside
Build a little room where I don’t hide
I am a woman
Say it till it drowns their doubt
One day I’ll roll these pink suitcases out (hey)
[Bridge]
One day I’ll buy a tiny place
Coat hooks
Coffee
Lipstick stains
Friends who call my real name first
And hold me when the bad days hurt
Till then I’ll sing it through the walls (through the walls)
Turn their “can’t” into my “I’ll show you all” (oh yeah)
[Chorus]
I got pink suitcases in my mind
Packed with all the lives they left behind
I am a woman
I know it in my bones
Why can’t they just let me come home
If I can’t move out
I’ll move inside
Build a little room where I don’t hide
I am a woman
Say it till it drowns their doubt
One day I’ll roll these pink suitcases out
I am a woman
I’m saying it out loud
One day I’ll roll these pink suitcases out