Never Learned How to Love

Intro – Spoken]

Yeah…

Nobody taught me how to love…

Had to learn from the bruises,

From the pain, from the fire.

But God turned that lesson into strength.

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I was raised in the silence, broken in the dark,

Searching for a father, but he never played the part.

Every man I trusted just left another scar,

Tryna fill the emptiness of who I really are.

Daddy couldn’t show me what a real love means,

So I chased it in the streets, in American dreams.

But every “I love you” came with heartbreak and chains,

Had to bleed through the lessons, had to grow through the pain.

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I never learned how to love, had to fight through the fire,

Every tear that I cried turned to holy desire.

What my daddy never gave, I found in God above,

Through the pain, through the struggle, I learned how to love.

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Mama tried to hold me, but the damage was done,

I was lookin’ for affection in the wrong type of one.

Thought pain was passion, thought hurt was true,

But the devil can disguise what you think is due.

See, trauma was the teacher when my daddy walked away,

Had to stumble through the dark ‘til I found my faith.

Now my story is a weapon, my scars are a song,

God flipped my whole script, made the weak real strong.

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I never learned how to love, had to fight through the fire,

Every tear that I cried turned to holy desire.

What my daddy never gave, I found in God above,

Through the pain, through the struggle, I learned how to love.

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I break the cycle.

I won’t pass this pain down.

What was taken from me,

God’s restoring now.

Love ain’t abuse.

Love ain’t chains.

Love is freedom,

And I wear His name.

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Never learned how to love, but I’m learning every day,

God turned my broken past into a brighter way.

Daddy couldn’t teach me, but my spirit still grows,

‘Cause His mercy is the river, and His love still flows.