Seventeen

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