Seventeen”
Verse 1
Seventeen, still wearing borrowed dreams
Laughing loud so nobody hears the screams
Walking home with the night sky turning black
Trusted hands turned into a heart attack
Tried to wash the memory off my skin
But the mirror kept reminding me again
Every scar was a secret I concealed
Smiling wide while the pain stayed unrevealed
Pre-Chorus
And everybody said, “You’ll be okay”
But they never saw the nights I prayed
For the clock to rewind somehow
To before it all went down
Chorus
At seventeen they stole my innocence away
Turned my brightest skies to shades of gray
Then eighteen to twenty I was bruised by love
By someone who swore they’d never hurt enough
I kept breaking just to keep somebody near
Drowning silent in a sea of fear
But I’m still breathing through the damage done
Still here… still holding on
Verse 2
Eighteen candles burned beside my bed
While his angry words kept ringing in my head
Love shouldn’t leave your spirit feeling small
Shouldn’t make you scared to speak at all
Nineteen years old learning how to hide
Covering the hurt I carried deep inside
Twenty came with shattered pieces on the floor
But I finally reached for something more
Pre-Chorus
Cause the pain became too hard to fake
And survival meant I had to break
Every chain that pulled me down
Even if it hurt right now
Chorus
At seventeen they stole my innocence away
Turned my brightest skies to shades of gray
Then eighteen to twenty I was bruised by love
By someone who swore they’d never hurt enough
I kept breaking just to keep somebody near
Drowning silent in a sea of fear
But I’m still breathing through the damage done
Still here… still holding on
Bridge
They can take your trust
They can take your peace
But they’ll never take
The soul underneath
And one day the girl who cried alone at night
Will look in the mirror and survive the fight
Final Chorus
At seventeen they tried to break the light in me
But scars don’t decide who I’ll be
And eighteen to twenty taught me how to stand
Even when life slipped like sand through my hands
Now the tears fall but they don’t own my name
I survived the fire, survived the shame
And though the past still echoes when it’s gone
I’m here… and I’m moving on