You said I’d be lost without you, no one would love me the way you do.
Did it make you feel like a man when you pushed me around?
All those nights of living in fear of you, Did it make you feel like a man ?
I look back now and wonder why I ever stayed, you was nothing more than a scared little boy, Did it make you feel like a man to push me around?
I lived in fear of you, I covered my bruises, lowered my eyes when anyone else looked at me, did it make you feel like a man to cause a lifetime of trauma?
Who gave you the right to take someone’s entire life and turn it into something that they battle with every day?
Did it make you feel like a man?
It’s been thirty years since I got away. I still don’t understand.
Did it make you feel like a man?
Every day I tell myself I am not the one to carry the blame, one day at time I get a little better and a lot more confident in myself.
I don’t need a man to make me happy, I look within and see the battle scares left behind and I embrace them now, it’s my time to shine.
Did it make you feel like a man?
The only way you could have won is if I left the damage done control my life, that’s not what I’ve done.
Did it make you feel like a man?
Did it, did it make you feel like a man?