This is me

Verse 1

I’ve been holding the weight of too many years

Learning how to live with unspoken fears

I grew strong in places no one could see

Survived things that were never meant for me

I learned how to smile when my heart was torn

How to keep going when hope felt worn

I don’t look like what I’ve been through

But I carry every scar, every truth

Pre-Chorus

I didn’t get here untouched

I got here alive

Chorus

I’m still breathing, still standing here

Still choosing love through the fear

I’ve been broken, I’ve been bent

But I was never meant to end

The world may have tried to take my light

But it didn’t win the fight

I’m still breathing—this is me

And that alone is victory

Verse 2

I loved with everything inside my chest

Even when it cost me more than the rest

I gave my heart without a guard

And paid the price, but I’d do it again—God

Because love like that is holy

Even when it hurts this deep

I became a mother for a moment

And that love will always keep

I carry loss, but I carry grace

I carry heaven in my space

And some days I fall apart

But I still wake up with a beating heart

Pre-Chorus

I didn’t break

I changed

Chorus

I’m still breathing, still learning how

To live with the ache inside me now

I’ve cried oceans, screamed at the sky

But I’m still here—and so is why

I don’t need fixing, I don’t need proof

I am the outcome of survival and truth

I’m still breathing—this is me

And that is strength nobody sees

Bridge

Faith met me in the lowest place

When all I had were shattered prayers

God didn’t rush my healing

He just stayed right there

I don’t have all the answers now

I just have courage to continue somehow

And that has to count for something

Because giving up never did

Chorus (soft, lifted)

I’m still breathing, still holding on

Still choosing morning after dawn

I am more than what I lost

More than the pain, more than the cost

I carry love that didn’t fade

I carry stories I survived

I’m still breathing—this is me

And I am worthy of this life

Outro

I don’t need the world to understand

What it took to make me stand

I know who I am beneath the ache

I’m still breathing—for my own sake