don’t need

Verse 1

I don’t need to be held

I’ve seen what hands do when they’re unsure

I don’t need to be chosen

I know how fast “always” turns to “not anymore”

I don’t need someone calling me home

I built these walls on my own

I don’t need love to tell me I’m real

I’ve bled enough to know

Pre-Chorus

Some scars don’t need fixing

They just need room to breathe

Chorus

I don’t need to be loved

I need to stay the same

I don’t need a heart that opens

Then runs when it feels the weight

If your love needs me smaller

Needs me quiet, needs me less

I don’t need to be loved

I need to be whole

Yeah, that’s it

Verse 2

I don’t need to be seen

I know how eyes can measure a soul

I don’t need “forever” spoken

By someone scared to grow old

I’ve been wanted like a moment

Felt, but never kept

Every “stay” came with an exit

Every promise slept

Pre-Chorus

I don’t doubt the feeling

I doubt how it ends

Chorus

I don’t need to be loved

I need to be left the same

I don’t need a heart that opens

Then runs when it feels the weight

If your love needs me smaller

Needs me quiet, needs me less

I don’t need to be loved

I need to be whole

Yeah, that’s it

Bridge (spoken / half-sung)

Love never asks about

The nights you barely survived

The parts of you that don’t shine

The days you just stayed alive

If loving me costs comfort

If it costs your disguise

Don’t call your fear “destiny”

And leave me behind

I didn’t give up on love

I just stopped asking it

To lie

Final Chorus

I don’t need to be loved

I need to be left intact

I don’t need a heart that opens

Just to ask for itself back

If your love needs me smaller

Needs me quiet, needs me less

I don’t need to be loved

I need to stay who I am

Yeah, who I am

Outro

I don’t need to be loved

I need to be whole

And that’s it