Verse 1
No one tells you how quiet the world gets
When your body still aches but your arms are empty
How every laugh feels just a little too loud
Like joy is something you’re not allowed
No one tells you how time keeps moving
Like nothing sacred was just ruined
They say, “Be strong,” they say, “You’ll heal”
But they don’t tell you how this feels
Pre-Chorus
I smile when I’m supposed to
I bite my tongue till it bleeds
Because grief has teeth
And it won’t let go of me
Chorus
No one tells you the resentment
That crawls up your spine
When you see other mothers
Living the life that should’ve been mine
I hate myself for feeling this way
But God, it hurts just the same
I’m angry, I’m broken, I’m trying to cope
Holding grief and guilt and hope
Verse 2
No one tells you how love gets tested
How loss rewrites what you trusted
How you look at the one you adore
And suddenly you’re scared of losing more
We fight about things that don’t make sense
Because pain keeps jumping the fence
You grieve one way, I grieve another
And somehow we keep hurting each other
Pre-Chorus
I don’t doubt your love
But I doubt the ground beneath my feet
Because when life took her from me
It took my safety
Chorus
No one tells you the anger
That lives in your chest
How you push away the one
Who’s trying their best
We argue about trust, about fear, about blame
About who hurts more, about who’s changed
I love you, but I’m terrified too
Because loving once almost destroyed me and you
Bridge
I watch women with babies on their hips
And I feel something ugly on my lips
It’s not hate — it’s grief in disguise
It’s mourning a life that never got time
I want to scream, “You don’t know this pain”
But I swallow it down and smile again
Because no one likes a grieving mother
Who can’t be happy for another
Break (soft, almost whispered)
I miss who I was before this loss
Before love came with such a cost
Before my heart learned how to split
Between surviving… and giving up
Final Chorus
No one tells you how lonely this is
How every breath feels like resistance
How love and rage can coexist
How much you can ache and still exist
I’m not cruel, I’m not unkind
I’m just a mother with empty hands
Trying to love, trying to stay
Trying not to fall apart again
Outro
So if I pull away, please stay
If I cry over nothing, please wait
I didn’t lose just a child that day
I lost the world I thought was safe
No one tells you…
But now you know.
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