[Verse 1]
Dear mom
Why did you do what you did
You watched me fall into their hands
You saw me flinch
You closed your lids
How could you let me get hurt
By that cold
Unfeeling face
They never cared about you or me
But you still gave them my place
[Chorus]
Why did you let me get hurt
Mom
Why did you leave me there alone
I was just a kid
Calling your name
In somebody else’s broken home
I can’t keep clutching all this pain
Like a picture in shattered glass
I’m done
I’m done holding on
To all this weight from the past
[Verse 2]
You said you did what you could
Said I should just move on
But the echoes in that bedroom
Still wake me before dawn
I needed you to choose me
Not the storm that wore that smile
You say you didn’t see it
I’ve been bleeding all this while
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
I’m sad
Yeah
I’m angry
Both truths in one breath
I forgive you one minute
Then hate you to death
But if I ever heal
It won’t be because you asked
It’s ‘cause I’m finally letting go
Of what you buried in my past
[Chorus]