Lost

There’s a version of me you refine
Fits your frame—but it isn’t mine
Though I’m not blind, I hear you out
Trace every word, and map it out
But every “fix” you hand to me
Feels less like growth, and more like surgery
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[Pre-Chorus] 
There’s a line I can’t erase
Between improvement and replaced
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[Chorus] 
Set the table, bite my tongue
Smile like I’m your only one
Call it care, the way you shape
Every part of me you’d change
I can learn, yeah I can try
Be the girl you have in mind
But if I’m someone else because—
Then I’ve already lost what I was
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[Bridge] 
You say I’m hard to hold this way
Too much fire, too much weight
I could be easy, I could break
If that’s the version it would take
But I won’t trade myself for us
That’s not love—
That’s just loss
Set the table, bite my tongue
Smile like I’m your only one
Call it care, the way you shape
Every part of me you’d change
I can learn, yeah I can try
Be the girl you have in mind
But if I’m someone else because—
Then I’ve already lost what I was

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