Built from damage

I learned to sleep with the lights on,

’Cause darkness knew my name.

Every promise turned to ashes,

Every touch became a flame.

I wore my scars like armor,

Kept my heart behind a wall,

I stopped waiting for somebody

Who was never there at all.

I wasn't raised by tenderness,

I was taught to take the pain.

Every time they broke me down,

I rebuilt myself again.

I was built from damage, not love,

Forged in everything I couldn't trust.

Every crack became a piece of me,

Every wound taught me how to breathe.

I don't need saving from the person I've become,

I'm the proof that broken things can overcome.

Yeah, I carry every scar like a loaded gun—

I was built from damage,

I was built from damage, not love.

I know how silence sounds at midnight,

When you're screaming in your head.

I know how to smile like nothing's wrong

When you're falling out of bed.

They gave me reasons to be colder,

So I became the winter sky.

Now the fire in my chest

Is something they can never die.

I wasn't shaped by gentle hands,

I was sharpened by goodbye.

Every tear I couldn't show

Put a little steel inside.

I was built from damage, not love,

Forged in everything I couldn't trust.

Every crack became a piece of me,

Every wound taught me how to breathe.

I don't need saving from the person I've become,

I'm the proof that broken things can overcome.

Yeah, I carry every scar like a loaded gun—

I was built from damage,

I was built from damage, not love.

Maybe someday I'll learn

That I don't have to stay afraid.

Maybe someday these hands

Won't remember every mistake.

But if healing takes forever,

I'll still walk through every mile.

I may have been born from sorrow,

But I won't die in denial.

I was built from damage, not love,

But I became more than what they made me of.

Every scar is proof I made it through,

Every shattered piece became something new.

I don't need saving—I know who I've become,

A heart that survived what it thought would overcome.

And if they ask me where my strength came from—

I'll say,

I was built from damage,

but I became my own kind of love.

Built from damage…

Not love.

But I'm still here.

And that's enough.