Trying to be the perfect daughter

Verse 1

I learned early how to stay quiet
How to smile when it hurt inside
I read the room like a warning sign
Tried to be wrong only at the right times
I wore your hopes like a second skin
Told myself this is how love begins
If I could just be good enough
Maybe I’d finally feel your love

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Chorus

I’m trying to be your perfect daughter
Carrying weight I never chose
Smiling through the cracks and water
Breaking just so no one knows
I’m everything you wanted me to be
Except the girl I’m supposed to be for me

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Verse 2

I became strong where I should’ve cried
Said “I’m fine” like a practiced lie
Every mirror felt like a test
Every step had to be my best
I thought love was something earned
By the lessons I never learned
I held myself together tight
Just to make it through another night

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Chorus

I’m trying to be your perfect daughter
Carrying weight I never chose
Smiling through the cracks and water
Breaking just so no one knows
I’m everything you wanted me to be
Except the girl I’m supposed to be for me

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Bridge

Maybe it wasn’t meant to be this hard
Maybe I took it too far
I was just a kid with a fragile heart
Trying to play a grown-up part
I don’t hate you, I don’t blame
I just got lost inside the name
Of who I thought I had to be
To deserve to be loved completely

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Final Chorus

I was trying to be your perfect daughter
Carrying weight I never chose
Now I’m rising from that water
Letting myself finally show
I’m not everything you wanted me to be
But I’m becoming who I need

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Ending

I don’t need to be your perfect daughter
I can finally let it go
I’m done carrying that water
I’m choosing me, and now I know

It’s kind of like a soft song that goes big but it hits in the emotional feels