(Verse 1)
Don’t tell them I was strong
Don’t paint me like a warrior who never fell
I was just a person holding on
With a thousand stories I never got to tell
I learned how to laugh through the cracks
I learned how to smile when I was breaking inside
Everyone saw me coming back
Nobody saw the battles I survived
(Pre-Chorus)
I was a heart with a heavy weight
A candle burning in the rain
I kept giving pieces of myself away
Just hoping someone would stay
(Chorus)
And if my name becomes a memory
Please remember who I really was
I wasn’t cold, I wasn’t empty
I was just someone who needed love
I loved too much, I stayed too long
I held on when everyone moved on
I wasn’t looking for an ending
I was looking for a night where the hurting was gone
If heaven has a place for broken souls
I hope it feels like finally coming home
’Cause I spent my whole life searching
For a little bit of peace to call my own
(Verse 2)
I stood beside the people leaving
I carried words they never said
I gave my heart without a reason
While loneliness slept beside my bed
And maybe that’s the cruelest part
Nobody knew the war beneath my skin
I kept protecting everyone else’s heart
While mine was begging to be let in
(Pre-Chorus)
I was not made of stone
I was just tired of being alone
I was bleeding in the places
Nobody thought to look
(Chorus)
And if my name becomes a memory
Please remember who I really was
I wasn’t cold, I wasn’t empty
I was just someone who needed love
I loved too much, I stayed too long
I sang my pain inside these songs
I wasn’t asking for forever
I was asking for one night to feel I belonged
(Bridge)
Maybe someday someone will see
The battles hidden underneath
The silent tears, the quiet prayers
The weight I carried everywhere
And they’ll know I tried
God, I tried
Even on the nights I lost my light
(Final Chorus)
So if my name becomes a memory
Don’t say I never felt a thing
Say I was a heart that kept on beating
Even when it hurt to breathe
I wasn’t cold, I wasn’t heartless
I was a soul that needed rest
I spent my whole life searching
For a place where I could finally set down the weight
And if heaven’s real, I hope it’s peaceful
I hope there’s no more fear to fight
I hope I finally find the quiet
That I was chasing all my life
(Outro)
Don’t remember me as broken
Remember me as someone who cared
A person who loved with everything
Even when nobody knew I was scared