[Intro – clean guitar, distant piano]
I learned to smile before I learned to speak
Learned perfection keeps the monsters asleep
Every gold star came with sharpened teeth
“Be somebody”… just never me
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[Verse 1]
Tiny hands on a piano key
Trying to play what you wanted from me
Report cards hanging like courtroom signs
Every mistake became a crime
“Why can’t you be more like them?”
That sentence still lives beneath my skin
I built my worth from your applause
Now silence feels like loss
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[Pre-Chorus]
So I learned to shrink
Learned not to cry
Learned how to disappear in plain sight
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[Chorus – heavy guitars explode in]
I was never enough
Never enough for your eyes
Every time I stood up
You found another way to criticize
Now I’m older but the damage stays
Still hear your voice in my veins
No matter what I become
I still feel small
Still feel broken
Still feel wrong
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[Verse 2]
Teenage ghost with a hollow stare
Hiding panic underneath dyed hair
Mirror talks like an enemy
Telling me what I’ll never be
Friends say I’m doing alright
But I still lose sleep every night
‘Cause confidence is counterfeit
And mine was built on punishment
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[Pre-Chorus]
Every achievement fades away
Like pouring rain on a wildfire brain
I break myself just to fit your mold
But fractured hearts don’t turn to gold
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[Chorus]
I was never enough
Never enough for your eyes
Every dream that I touched
Turned into another thing you’d minimize
Now I’m screaming through the same old ache
Trying not to drown in shame
No matter what I become
I still feel small
Still feel useless
Still feel numb
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[Bridge – half-time, emotional build]
Maybe I was just a kid
Not a failure you had to fix
Maybe love shouldn’t feel like fear
Maybe scars shouldn’t last for years
You handed me impossible standards
Then blamed me when I shattered
Now I wear these doubts like chains
Dragging behind me every day
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[Breakdown – screamed]
I AM MORE THAN YOUR EXPECTATIONS
MORE THAN THESE SELF-DESTRUCTIVE THOUGHTS
YOU TAUGHT ME LOVE WAS SOMETHING EARNED
SO I HATE MYSELF FOR EVERYTHING I’M NOT
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[Final Chorus – anthemic]
But I’m done being enough for you
Done bleeding just to prove
That I deserve a place in this world
Without carrying your words
Maybe the child inside my chest
Doesn’t have to ace every test
Maybe someday I’ll believe
I was enough for me
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[Outro – soft clean guitar fading out]
I was enough…
Before you told me I wasn’t.
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