[Intro]
Yeah
Look
This one for the mirror
(Stand up)
[Verse 1]
Used to hide my face in a hoodie, head low
Scrolling every highlight, feeling mad broke
Counting every flaw like it’s all I own
Never saw the crown sitting under my afro
Left on read, I was reading into it
Thought I had to shrink just to ever fit in
Now I see the frame never held my image
I be breaking out the box ‘fore they even finish
[Chorus]
I love myself
Every scar, every story I tell
I rose up when they counted me out
Now my heartbeat louder than doubt
I love myself
Every bruise turned blue into belt
I’m the gold that I used to chase
I wear my name like a flame, I’m ablaze
[Verse 2]
You ain’t gotta look like the feed to be fine
They can’t crop out what you carry inside
You the whole song, not a thirty-second line
You the reason that the dark had to rewind
I was fighting shadows that were never even mine
Now I use ‘em all as a backdrop when I shine
You ain’t broken, you been forged by the fire
If you breathing, you already higher (yeah)
[Chorus]
I love myself
Every scar, every story I tell
I rose up when they counted me out
Now my heartbeat louder than doubt
I love myself
Every bruise turned blue into belt
I’m the gold that I used to chase
I wear my name like a flame, I’m ablaze
[Bridge]
[Beat drops, keys and bass push forward]
You don’t need their stamp to be certified
You don’t need their chair to be sitting high
Every tear that you spilled was a tide
Look how far it carried you this time (this time)
[Chorus]
I love myself
Every scar, every story I tell
I rose up when they counted me out
Now my heartbeat louder than doubt
I love myself
Every bruise turned blue into belt
I’m the gold that I used to chase
I wear my name like a flame, I’m ablaze (yeah)
I wear my name like a flame, I’m ablaze