10 Years

Verse 1
Boxes are being filled 
this room feels so still
Cause I can’t believe it’s been all this time now

Going through all my drawers
I couldn’t ask for anything more 
But that’s when the pictures fell out 

High school prom, 8th grade dance
when life felt like it was full of chances
But I never do it again

Pre-Chorus
Feels like a different me, a young girl that was so naive, it’s different, then I thought it would be

Chorus
It’s been 10 years since 2016
I still don’t know who I’m
Supposed to be
Thought I be better, thought I be smart
Thought I be the girl who didn’t break hearts
Fairytales frozen in 17
Was it time? 
Or was it me? 

Verse 2
Found a dress I never wore
Tags still hanging like before
Saving it for “someday me”

Letters I was gonna send
Apologies I never meant
Or was too scared to be

I slide down the back of the door 
Tears fall with my knees
Who am I really supposed to be? 

Pre-Chorus
Feels like a different me, a young girl that was so naive, it’s different, then I thought it would be

Chorus
It’s been 10 years since 2016
I still don’t know who I’m
Supposed to be
Thought I be better, thought I be smart
Thought I be the girl who didn’t break hearts
Fairytales frozen in 17
Was it time? 
Or was it me? 

Bridge
Mirror on the wall, who that’s?
Doesn’t look like me at all
Twenty-six, it hit me then
I don’t get to start again
That little girl was fierce and brave
Why am I scared more now 
at twenty-eight

Chorus
It’s been 10 years since 2016
I still don’t know who I’m
Supposed to be
Thought I be better, thought I be smart
Thought I be the girl who didn’t break hearts
Fairytales frozen in 17
Was it time? 
Or was it me? 

Nostalgic slow pop ballad with orchestral swells, gentle folk instruments, and intimate reflective storytelling, female